Taking Sides: French Revolution During the French Revolution, the Democratic-Republicans wished to side with the French, while the Federalists fancied siding with Britain. Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists, believed that allying with the British would be more beneficial for our country, but the Democratic-Republicans disagreed. According to The American Journey, “To many Americans, France had become an enemy”. During the French revolution, many Americans were afraid that if we did
Revolutionary Leaders Mahatmas Ghandi and Maximilien Robespierre where both leaders who contributed to a revolution and cause. Although they were contributing to different causes, there were some similarities between these revolutionary leaders! Some of these similarities go as followed gandhi believed in the use of non-violence. Robespierre used violence to get his point around, and strike fear into the people. They were both fighting for different rights such as women's rights, titles, and government
that she used the words “I” and “we” to further persuade her listeners and truly buy into her ideas. Roosevelt used her background knowledge of the French Revolution to prove her point of freedom for everybody. She knew that the French Revolution was a very touchy subject to the people and used that to her advantage by pointing out the pros and cons of what could have happened without the civil war. In my opinion
though Napoleon was always right. Also, during the French Revolution, the woman had many rights. After Napoleon came to power, women were regarded as property to their husband and could not exchange in commerce. Women could divorce their husband, but the process was a difficult one and they had to wait ten months to get remarried. Napoleon saw woman as slaves to their husband. Essentially, the cons outweigh the pros. The French Revolution abolished slavery in France and all of its territories
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of