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This 7 page paper discusses how mechanism, imperialism and the Enlightenment brought about the Age of Revolution. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Revolution, and a Latin American slave revolt all took place (Age of revolution, 2006). It was also a time when "most of the European countries changed their government to absolutist
... or constitutionalist states" (Age of revolution, 2006). This paper discusses how mechanism, imperialism and the Enlightenment brought about the Age of Revolution. Overview The American and French revolutions "were
the most important political events of the eighteenth century. They were also a dramatic conclusion to the Enlightenment, and both revolutions, taken together, form a major turning point in human
history" (Schmiechen, 1999). For Americans, that turning point was a series of laws passed by Parliament that came to be known as the "Intolerable Acts"-they included things like the Stamp
Act and the tax on tea that led to the famous Boston Tea Party and eventually ignited the American Revolution. This struggle in turn "stimulated reform efforts throughout Europe. It
was in France that the ideas of the Enlightenment and liberalism were put to their fullest test" (Schmiechen, 1999). There, the aristocracy tried to "grab power from a weak king,"
only to find that the middle class "grabbed even harder" (Schmiechen, 1999). The "revolutionary desires of the middle class depended on the firm support and violent action of aroused peasants
and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999). For the first two years, the French Revolution "achieved
unprecedented reforms," but the outbreak of an "all-European war against France in 1792 ... resulted in a reign of terror and a dictatorship by radical moralists, of whom Robespierre was
the greatest" (Schmiechen, 1999). This "radical patriotism" was gone by 1795 and the revolution faltered, finally deteriorating into "a military dictatorship under the opportunist Napoleon. Yet, until 1815 the history
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