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Revolutions and the restoration of absolutism
Political and economic liberalism
Criticism of the old regime
The liberals criticised different aspects
The power of absolute monarchs and the Church
The power of monarchies and the privileges of the Church and their ability to influence laws limited individual rights and freedom of expression
The survival of manorialism in the fiefdoms of the nobility and the Church
Inhabitants of fiefdoms had to work for their lords, pay taxes and be subject to their laws.
The legal inequality of the estate system
This is the absence of equality between all people before the law
The survival of a feudal economy
There was great commercial and market growth during previous centurie
Ideas of political liberalism
Ideas formed around political liberalism
Equality of people before the law
The abolition of all privileges. Everyone, should be subject to the same laws regardless of their social origin
The division of powers
A separation between the church and the state
The existence of unalienable individual rights
Press, printing, education and assembly
Sovereignty resides in the nation
Proposed a representative political power
Moderate and radical liberals
Moderate liberals
Were monarchists and therefore wanted to leep the king
Censitary suffrage
Radical liberals
Were democrats
Universal suffrage
The american revolution: the founding of the united states of america
The thirteen colonies: war and independence
American war of independence
France, Spain and the United Provinces supported the colonists to weaken Great Britain
Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown
George Washington signed the Peace of Paris in 1783
A revolutionary process
The thirteen conolies became states, that made a new country called the
United States of America
The political regime of the United States
Drafted a Constitution
The constitution of the United States of America
Popular sovereignty
The United States citizens hold the power
Federal republic
Separation of powers
The executive consists of the president
Suffrage
In in place to elect members of the House of Representatives
Head of state
Is the president
Basic rights
To life, liberty and property, and of freedoms, including religious, printing, assembly, etc
Napoleon Bonaparte
Established hereditary power
Was crowned emperor of the French in 1804
Marked the reform of the inherited political framework of the modern French State
Napoleon's reforms
Ended some revolutionary achievements
Created a repressive regime
Established an authoritarian government
Created the French Civil Code
Boosted the economy
Laid the foundations for modern educational models
Improved the Public Administration
The Napoleonic wars
Second phase
His army was heavily defeated
The subsequent successes of the coalitions and the interminable war in Spain led to Napoleon’s defeat and exile in 1814
First phase
Victories against the great absolutist powers, Austria, Prussia and Russia
Invaded Spain
