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The Leviathan
Thomas hobbes
1651: The government should have all power over the sea monster. -
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Absolutism and the French Revolution
Absolutism and The French Revolution was caused by debt , taxes, american influences, food scarcity. -
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract: " Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains" -
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The Monarchy
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Storming the Bastille
An angry mob storms the bastille to gain weapons, They take the prison amnd kill the commander beginning the great fear -
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The Committee of Public Safety
A new system of government was needed which could react quickly and take more extreme measures, and so on January 25th 1793 the Committee of Public Safety was created to govern France. This was initially to be formed of twenty five people, but when it first met on April 7th it had been streamlined to include just nine. -
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The Terror
The Terror was a time of violence that occured after the French Revolution. -
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The Directory
October National Convention is dissolved in favor of five-man executive Directory and two large legislative bodies -
First consul
His great political skilla led to a new constitution that created the position of first consul, which amounted to nothing less than a dictatorship. Under the new guidelines the first consul was permitted to appoint ministers, generals, civil servants, magistrates and even members of the legislative assemblies. Napoleon would of course be the one who would fulfill the first consul's duties, and in February 1800 the new constitution was easily accepted.Under his direction. -
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Napoleon as Emperor
He crowned him self. He went to the Battle of Waterloo -
Crowning
Napoleon surprised everyone by not allowing the Pope to crown him. Instead, he placed the crown on his own head, and then crowned Josephine Empress. A few months later, on May 26, 1805, Napoleon crowned himself again– this time with the iron circlet that symbolized the rule over all of Italy. -
Battle of Waterloo
In 1815, he briefly returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he abdicated once again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, where he died at 51. -
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The Republican Party
Also known as the grand ol party.Which threatned to extend slavery.
