Revolution

The American Revolution: The British Tyranmical rule over the Colonies resulted in the revolution, wich lead to many dissagreements as well as battles. As to how the Colonies went about the tea party i dissagree with how they were unorganized and brutal. It was a huge waste of tea.

The French Revolution: The French Revolution was caused by the increased cost for food and inflation caused by the rich. In an atempt to restore a balanced economy the French lower class revolted against the rich, wealthy, and powerful. The rich and powerfull made taxes so that they could remain rich while ignoring the need of food and shelter which was deprived of them by these taxes.

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Describe the inequity of the 3 estates system: The Old regime was inbalanced at the top of the system was the clergy, they were the wealthy and high up religous people who held the end all arguement. Then come are the nobles who did not have to pay taxes and were represented in the government. At the bottom were the working class who were controlled by the absolute rule of the other two.

The French revolution began as a result of the 1st and 2nd estate though poorer than some 3rd estate poeple, held more power than the 3rd estate. The oportunists like Napolean used the poor and angry 3rd estate men and women to revolt against the 1st and 3rd estate killing hundreds and thousands of people. The poor people listened to the oportunist to get revenge on the higher classes for the fact that they could not afford food to live and the oportunists wanted to gain more power and say in the government.

Congress of Vienna: Was a meeting held to remake Europe after the downfall of Napolean. Each fo the four major powers in Europe were represented, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Brittain. In the Congress many important decissions were made; France was declared a territory that Napolean concored and the Dutch republic combined the Netherlands and Austria into one country. Also Norway and Switzerland were united under one rule and were declared a nuetral country. Russian recieved a good portion of Saxony back from the congress. The other major powers were given back a lot of the land that Napolean had concored and ontop of that the congress placed back Louis XVlll and Ferdinand Vll back into power of France and Spain. The congress achieved its goal of trying to creat peace between the nations.