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Revolutions (Enlightment (What was Enlightment? (Age of Reason, was a…
Revolutions
American Revolution
People Independents
The American people were strongly independent. They wanted to do things for there self. Great Britain was very far away. The American people didn't want people an ocean away telling them how to live their lives.
Unnecessary Taxes
The Stamp Act, Tea Act, The Townsend Acts, and The Navigation Act. 
French Revolutions
Political Conflict
Conflict between the Monarchy and the Nobility over the "reform" of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
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Enlightment
What was Enlightment?
Age of Reason, was a philosophical movement that took place primarily in Europe and, later, in North America, during the late 17thand early century. Its participants thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the "dark" Middle Ages.
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One Philosopher.
John Locke
Believed all citizens should be guaranteed the rights to Life, Liberty, and property. His beliefs influenced the writers of the Declaration of Independence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Accomplishments
Positive Accomplishments
Reforms in politics, domestic affairs, religion and the military.
Negative Accomplishments
Deaths of hundreds of thousands of French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. The French economy was ruined by the cost of the wars and the effects of the British naval blockade.France lost overseas possessions and in influence in North America, Haiti, and India.Napoleon attempted to reintroduce slavery in Haiti.
Scientific Revolution
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Scientific Method
Copernicus
The Heliocentrictheory. The theory that the sun was the center of the Universe.