Question

Read the "Sources from the Past: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" section in your textbook. Answer the question at the end of the section.

How did Olympe de Gouges promote equality for women in France during the late eighteenth century?


How did the Enlightenment differ from ideas of the Catholic Church?


What are the factors that lead to the start of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

Olympe de Gouges work as feminist.

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Olympe de Gouges promote equality for women in France by participating in the politics. she also fought against slavery as well as a for the rights of women. She also writing a political pamphlets in order to provide information about women's rights. Later she started a political campaign for the rights of the women.

The Enlightenment differ from ideas of the Catholic Church because Catholics follow the religion strictly while the Enlightenment were the liberals who disagrees with the ideas of Christianity.

Social inequality between peoples of the society, high taxes, ideas of Enlightenment philosophers, wars which causes Financial Crisis and high price of bread are the factors which lead to start the Revolutionary War.

Answer 2

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-Insistence on largest amount of personal freedom from government interference

-Support for the idea of popular sovereignty

-An argument for the need of a fair criminal process

-Nations engaged in revolution during this period insisted on writing new constitutions to clarify the rights held by citizens and powers held by government.

2. Olympe de Gouges gained fame as a journalist, actress, and playwright, which she used her influence to promote women’s rights. Specifically, de Gouges appealed to Queen Marie Antoinette to advance women’s rights and published The Declaration of Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.

3. The Enlightenment differed from religious ideas because the Enlightenment focused upon scientific advances and rational analysis. The Enlightenment was based upon “reason,” not religious beliefs, to explain scientific phenomena and other areas of study, such as human behavior and politics. The Enlightenment also called for religious freedom, versus earlier persecution of religious minorities.

4. The British had colonies in North America, which the colonists were taxed heavily due to the heavy costs of the previous wars, such as the Seven Years’ War. The Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Townshend Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773) were some of the major taxes the British placed upon the colonists. Also, the Quartering Act (1765) required colonists to provide housing and accommodations for British troops. Conflict arose from the heavy taxes. Colonists argued they should only be paying taxes if they had the right to be represented in British parliament, stating, “no taxation without representation.” Colonists created the Continental Congress and the Revolutionary War begun with the battle at Lexington.

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