Mid Term Essays

Question 1

Context/background: Evaluate the extent to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3

Answer 1

One cause of the Glorious Revolution was that Protestants in England were frustrated because of the Stuart monarch’s catholic and absolutist policies. One cause of the French Revolution was the exploitation of the 3rd estate by the 1st and 2nd estate. The 3rd estate was forced to pay all of the taxes and only controlled 65% of the land, even though they made up 98% of the population.

Question 2

Thesis/Claim: Evaluate the extent to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3

Answer 2

To a certain extent

Question 3

Argument/Reason #1 that supports claim: Evaluate the extent to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3 (Claim: to a certain extent)

Answer 3

A similarly in the political consequences of the Glorious Rev. and the French Rev. is that documents that stressed basic rights and freedoms were adopted during both Revolutions.

Question 4

Argument/Reason #2 that supports claim: Evaluate the extent to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3 (Claim: to a certain extent)

Answer 4

A difference in the political consequences of the Glorious Revolution and the French Rev. is that there was violence in French but not in England.

Question 5

Argument/Reason #1: Evaluate the general similarity to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3

Answer 5

A similarity between the political consequences of the Glorious Rev. and the French Rev. is that documents that emphasized basic rights and freedoms were adopted during both revolutions

Question 6

Essay#3 Detail #1 Reason#1: that supports similarity between the revolutions by documents that stressed basic rights and freedoms

Answer 6

The English Bill of Rights was adopted during the Glorious Revolution. This doc ensured Parliament’s superiority over the monarchy, abolished cruel or unusual punishment and stated that no one could be held in jail without being charged with a crime

Question 7

Essay#3 Detail #2 Reason#1: that supports similarity between the revolutions by documents that stressed basic rights and freedoms

Answer 7

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted during the liberal phrase of the French Rev. This doc championed the idea that government should protect the natural rights of citizens and gave all men equality and freedom of religion.

Question 8

Essay#3 Detail#3 Reason#1: that supports similarity between the revolutions by documents that stressed basic rights and freedoms

Answer 8

Both the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen + the English Bill of Rights championed the idea of basic rights and freedoms

Question 9

Essay#3 Why similarities between the revolutions by documents that stressed basic rights and freedoms emerged

Answer 9

The Enlightenment in the 17th-18th centuries inspired representatives in England and France. The Enlightenment stressed basic rights and freedoms. Locke was and Enlightenment thinker who believed that people had natural rights. Montesquieu was a Enlightenment thinkers who supported limited monarchy, which England had after the English Bill of Rights was adopted

Question 10

Argument/Reason#2: Evaluate the general difference to which the political consequences of Britain’s Glorious Revolution differed from the political consequences of the French Revolution. Essay #3

Answer 10

A difference between the political consequences of the Glorious Rev. and the French Rev. is that there was violence in France but not in England

Question 11

Essay#3 Detail#1 Reason#2: that supports the difference between the Glorious Rev. and French Rev. because of the violence in the French Rev

Answer 11

During the Glorious Revolution there was no violence. The transfer of power from James II to William and Mary was bloodless

Question 12

Essay#3 Detail#2 Reason#2: that supports the difference between the Glorious Rev. and French Rev. because of the violence in the French Rev

Answer 12

During the radical phrase of the French Rev. the Jacobins formed the Committee of Public Safety, whose leader was Robespierre

Question 13

Essay#3 Detail#3 Reason#2: that supports the difference between the Glorious Rev. and French Rev. because of the violence in the French Rev

Answer 13

Between 1793-1794, Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety executed thousands suspected of treason. This was called the Reign of Terror

Question 14

Essay#3 Why this differences emerged that there was violence in France but not in England during the revolutions.

Answer 14

The cause of all the violence in France during the French Rev. is that the Jacobins feared any threat to the new French Republic. They created the Committee of Public Safety and began the Reign of Terror in attempts to rid France of its internal (peasant revolts) and external (war with Austria and Prussia) threats

Question 15

Complex Understanding Essay#3 describe an additional similarity/difference between the political consequences of the French Revolution and the Glorious Revolution

Answer 15

Another difference between the political consequences of the Glorious Rev. and the French Rev. is the difference in types of government after the Revolution. After the Glorious Rev.,England became a limited monarchy, with Parliament overseeing the monarchy. After the French Rev., the Congress of Vienna met to restore stability in France after the Napoleonic Wars, so they returned all all monarchies to power that had ruled before Napoleon. So the limited monarchy was restored in France. This was because Klemons von Metternich, a conservative that supported tradition and monarchy, was the leader of the Congress of Vienna.

Question 16

Context/background: Describe and explain significant continuities and changes in attitudes toward and the experiences of European women from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. Essay#2

Answer 16

Despite being considered a time of great achievement, the Renaissance was a time of deprivation of women’s status in the higher classes. These women were rarely accepted into learning institutions, and prohibited from joining guilds.

Question 17

Argument/Reason #1 Essay#2: Continuities and changes in attitudes toward and the experiences of European women from Ref through Enlightenment

Answer 17

A common continuation throughout the Reformation to the Enlightenment was the mistreatment and persecution of women who did not fit the stereotypical domestic ideal

Question 18

Argument/Reason #2 Essay#2: Continuities and changes in attitudes toward and the experiences of European women from Ref through Enlightenment

Answer 18

A distinct change in the attitude of women was, the beginning of demanding rights in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution which was not present during the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Question 19

Essay#2 Detail#1 Reason#1: Continuation of mistreatment and persecution of women who did not fit the stereotypical domestic ideal

Answer 19

During the 1500’s, women who refused to convert to the religion of the land or, since Europe was a patriarchal society, if women were not married they were suspected of witchcraft and executed.

Question 20

Essay#2 Detail#2 Reason#1: Continuation of mistreatment and persecution of women who did not fit the stereotypical domestic ideal

Answer 20

An effect of the Protestant Ref was the closing of monasteries and nunneries, after secular rulers seized church lands. This heavily hurt women as they could no longer access books and education easily.

Question 21

Essay#2 Detail#3 Reason#1: Continuation of mistreatment and persecution of women who did not fit the stereotypical domestic ideal

Answer 21

During the Radical phrase of the French Rev., the Jacobins feared female activism because they believed it threatened order and the new French Rep.. The result was the French Assembly banned women’s organizations.

Question 22

Essay#2 Why women continued to be persecuted and mistreated from the Reformation to the Enlightenment.

Answer 22

This continuity emerged due to the patriarchal society and they must be married and supervised by a man otherwise chaos would ensue.

Question 23

Essay#2 Detail#1 Reason#2: Change began to occur through the Enlightenment where women began to fight for rights.

Answer 23

Women in the Enlightenment hosted salons, where conversations about political policies, economic issues, art and literary topics. The salons and salonnieres (women that ran the salons) could make or break these conversationalist’s careers. The salonnieres began to better their lives as they could meet and marry a man of higher social ranking.

Question 24

Essay#2 Detail#2 Reason#2: Change began to occur through the Enlightenment where women began to fight for rights.

Answer 24

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English Enlightenment thinker who was considered to be one of the earliest feminists. She wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” in which she demanded equal rights for women.

Question 25

Essay#2 Detail#3 Reason#2: Change began to occur through the Enlightenment where women began to fight for rights.

Answer 25

Since the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in France did not apply to women, French feminist and author Olympe de Gouges wrote the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman” demanding women’s suffrage.

Question 26

Essay#2: Why women started demanding rights during the Enlightenment

Answer 26

As the Enlightenment and Scientific Rev. influenced higher thinking of mankind, women were inspired to challenge the patriarchal society and demand rights.

Question 27

Complex Understanding: describe an additional continuity/change between the attitudes and experiences of women from the Reformation through the Enlightenment.

Answer 27

An additional continuity was the belief women are more inferior to men and their place was in the home. This idea lasted through the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Women were cast aside and the Enlightenment thinkers, like Rousseau, did not view their rights as important.