Europe after Napoleon

After Napoleon was defeated the Europeans wanted to reestablish peace on the continent. They wanted stability and security.

They met for the Congress of Vienna, and mostly aristocrats, who were very wealthy and socially-connected elites, attended. They wanted to prevent the French from getting aggressive again, so they surrounded it with strong countries. Restore Balance of Power. So France wasn't a threat to others.

The Congress of Vienna wanted to restore Europe's royal families to their thrones  they held before Napoleon's conquests. A group of 39 German states were joined, Switzerland was recognized as independent.

The Congress of Vienna didn't want to weaken France but they also didn't want to make it to strong. They vowed to help each other in aid. They also restored kings and queens to their thrones to stabilize political relations among the nations. That is what the purpose of Balance of Power and Legitimacy.

For Europeans the Congress of Vienna was very successful. They did what they wanted to do to make the nations of Europe strong and stable once again.

Simon Bolivar & Thomas Jefferson

Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783 and died December 17, 1830 he died at the age of 47. He was born into a wealthy family who owned gold and copper mines. His parents died when he was 9 years of age. Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia on April 13, 1743 and died on July 4, 1826, he died at the age of 83. He was born into a famous wealthy family. Jane Randolph Jefferson comes from English and Scottish royalty. Peter Jefferson was a surveyor, cartographer and a former map-maker. Jefferson became a lawyer in 1767. He was elected to congress in 1775.

I admire that Jefferson served his country for more then 50 years. And that he had 6 children and only 2 made it to adulthood. I don't admire that he favored slavery and that he had children with one of his slaves, even though he still treated them poorly.

Bolivar got his ideas through his tutors that were very intelligent and taught him about freedom. Jefferson mostly learned from John Locke's writings about natural rights.

Bolivar became the person he was because his parents died when he was young and it was probably because of something that wasn't available to them at that time but he grew up to make those things available. But he also learned for his wife's death and from Napoleon Bonaparte. Thomas Jefferson got a good education and learned from John Locke's theory on natural rights. That is mostly how Jefferson became who he was.

I think that the world would be very different because there wouldn't have been the Declaration of Independence and there also wouldn't be peace of freedom in the places they went to and fixed.

Venezuela and the Enlightenment

The capital of Venezuela is Caracas, the population is 29,100,000, their presidential system is, socialist, and constitutional republic, they have diverse wildlife in a variety of habitats.

Nicolas Maduro replaced Hugo Chavez 10 months ago after he died. The citizens don't really like him because there wasn't as much problems with Hugo Chavez as president. They didn't have a problem until Maduro became president. The citizens are starting demonstrations now because they are out of jobs there isn't food on the shelves of stores and 9 people have died since this started and they started after 3 people died. I hopefully think they are doing it now because Maduro is weak.

Essential Documents of the Enlightenment

The "due process of Law" is  laws that should be orderly and should be known, Including independent courts, where laws would be determined if they were violated. We should have independent courts because then the judge or the jury would not be pressured into proving you guilty or not guilty. The king is also prohibited from taking property.

Popular Sovereignty is where governments get their power from the consent of the governed. The people can give'et power and take away'et. Governments can't change that because they wanted it to.

Yes, "Unalienable rights" are essential in a democratic government because, it is our natural rights, we were born with them. This includes, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. The government must protect those rights. Because they wanted them as much as the people did and we deserve them.

A "Representative Government" is, a group of people who made laws and that group of people acts for the people. The American Colonists expected this because they didn't want the government making all the laws based on what they see and witness, they wanted some of laws based on what will help them with what they need and don't need and what needs to be prohibited.

After the French Revolution

 The "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," Only white males had rights, not women, not slaves, not native Americans. They wanted Liberty, Freedom, Freedom of speech, and Freedom of Religion.

They were spilt into 3 parts, the Left Wing who wanted to radically change the government, they didn't want a king, a emperor, or a president. Then they were the Centrist, they had moderate views on the government which meant they wanted changes but not to many and not to little. Last but not least, they were the Right Wing, who wanted few or no changes what so ever to the government.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a military genius, because he was sent to a military school at the age of 9. As he grew up he fought in many wars. He seized power in France and proclaimed himself emperor. The people of France liked Napoleon and looked up to him because of how powerful he was and his experience in the military. He took hold of western Europe and most of central Europe, but the people started to rebel against him.

I disagree because, the dictator's can feed people and give them jobs but they might not give the people the rights they want and deserve. The dictator's most likely wont give them the right to vote and they might threaten the people into taking the job and food, but they might not even have a place to live. But the people can react and betray the dictator's to get what they want because they have been bribed and that means that the dictator's are not okay.

The French Revolution was different.

The French Revolutinaries  were divided into 3 social classes. The privileged estates were two of the social classes, they had high paying jobs and did not pay taxes. Unlike the 3rd estate which paid all the taxes.  The French Revolutionaries hacked guards to death and cut off people's heads and walked around with heads on sticks. But the privileged estates did not lose their rights. In the American Revolution they did not cut off people's heads, or soliders heads. Britian started to pay taxes after the Americans defeated the King, unlike the privileged estates they did not lose their rights.

The French Revolution

The French were inspired by the American Revolution's Declaration of Independence.

The French Revolutionaries were from the third estate, they were peasants and they wanted liberty, equality, and democracy.

The memebers of the third estate were dissatisfied  because they paid the taxes, and did most of the work and paid 50% of their income to rich nobles.

The changes in the French government were inevitable because they wanted a democratic government and the people of the third estate were fed up with food shortages, and high taxes and the government didn't change anything.

Enlightenment & Arab Spring

Science was able to prove that the earth wasn't the center of the universe

The revolution of Tunisia started with an unemployed 26 year old man, Mohamed Bouazizi. Mohamed was born on March 29, 1984 and died on January 4, 2011. It started when the police took Mohamed's only source of money for him and his family, his fruit cart they assaulted him and beat him. That was December 17, 2010 he started work at 8:00 a.m. and set himself on fire at 11:30 a.m. less then an hour after the governor refused to see him or listen to him. And when he died on January 4, 2011 that pushed the people to start the revolution. Due to the anger and violence of the people President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down on January 14, 2011.

The people of Tunisia wanted freedom, direct democracy, freedom of speech. They found that there was food inflation corruption, high unemployment, poor living conditions, and a lack of freedom of speech.

It is similar because they figured out that they didn't have the freedom of speech. And they also didn't have the freedom of press. They didn't let the government control them they retaliated and argued. They used these freedoms against their governments to get their way. To have a better country and better living situations and more employment.