Shes wrong about everything. And, you know, one of the powers you wanna go back to our founding documents, for example, the statement that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights among them, life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, was setting a cultural course for the United States that we were often contrary to, but had enormous power over the course of the next two centuries plus to where eventually we started to get more and more and more in conformity with that vision. His armies nearly conquered all of Europe. Its called two wolves. Though the Third Estate represented many more people and had twice the number of delegates, each estate had an equal vote. During the French Revolution, there was a period known as the Reign of terror which was a period of extreme violence and brutality against people who did not support the French Revolution. Taxation without representation is tyranny, James Otis reportedly said in protest of the lack of colonial representation in Parliament. Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and Spain (in 1779) joined the colonies against Britain. We know not to take them seriously. 5. In contrast to the American Revolution, the French Revolution happened. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect. And heres the other thing. And thats a thats a Dominion voting system. It was hard. I mean, the number of times youre just listening to the sweetest grandma. These countries shared the same idea of freedom and independence, the difference is they used different methods of accomplishing this goal. Because people do talk about the idea of national war, civil war, and just like how tense things are all the time. And every time we have faced critical sort of nation defining problems, its when we have violated that social compact. People have dramatically different points of view can live side by side with each other, possess the same amount of liberty, possess the same rights of free association and all of the things that we possess to allow us to create thriving communities and we expand the sphere. Thats like, old stuff. The debt from this huge war helped spark the American and French Revolutions. Compare And Contrast The French Revolution And The Mexican | Cram However, the Civil War was a not a complete representation of a second American Revolution. Churches controlled more affairs of the state. Lets listen. And so we saw this in the Trump era in abundance. This transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors and omissions. American colonies were placed with new taxes, and still werent allowed to elect representatives to Parliament; creating cries of No taxation without representation! With all the new taxes Britain kept creating, the Americans rebelled against them resulting in the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre sparking the flame of the revolution. This is this is how things go. Whats the solution you get? And everybody wants to stay here. We certainly cant be counted on having conservative beliefs because we said something about what was happening. Its not Biden. just gonna kinda keep her to arms length. Divided We Fall: Americas Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (by David French), https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/fox-news-lies-dominion.html, Learn more about your ad choices. A bloody, crowded battle scene shows Haitian revolutionaries fighting for their independence against European colonizers. First, I. think Fox is probably the most down the middle of any of them. And so I just felt like I was watching a rerun of all kinds conversations Ive had from everything around dinners and restaurants locally to conversations with old friends. So Im gonna say something again, which is that this is another situation where I I listen to these people, and theyre telling you that they dont know where to go for the truth. In other words, the way that you deal with the dissent and debate in profound disagreements in what he calls like the danger or the violence of faction is not by trying to suppress factions. In each location, there was a noticeable trend of mistreatment between government and people. Few acts by the crown roused so much antagonism in America as that use of foreign mercenaries. And they would have been part of that old coalition, and theyre different now. But once he clinched it, and he became the republican. Oh, if Democrats move into red states, they shouldnt be able to vote for at least five years. And do I engage on this point or we go back to talking about SEC football? A powerful and popular general named Napoleon Bonaparte soon rose to power and declared himself emperor in 1799. Thats who I wanna talk to. You know, like, I got preferences within the group, but, like, as long as they got that r, theyre gonna be better than what weve gotten. A cause of the French Revolution was Louis XIV's pursuit of absolute authority. How about World History from the point of view of the people of Tuvalu? We can make this happen. What the leader does is the leader sets the course of a cultural river. Republican Party to take on Donald Trump. Sarah, one of them one. I was like, this is such a good group for David French to watch. Although they did have similarities and differences; it seems as if their results differ more than they compare. Yeah. But anyway, Obviously, I have children. But to me, actually, it was part of what was funny. Thats doctor Seuss. But, like, you know, when we talk to Dans and we ask them about the Supreme Court, for example Mhmm. While most Indians wanted to stay out of the American Revolution, they As French soldiers returned home from the Seven Years' War, they came home to a nearly bankrupt monarchical regime. Its coming up on eight years since, now. The French Revolution was very bloody because the militant resistance were ordered by the French monarchies. Yeah. When the king called the Estates General, the Third Estate suddenly had a voice. So, there is no question that major American institutions have made some pretty serious and profound mistakes. Mhmm. They just think one might be coming based on what theyre seeing around them. The American Revolution led to the creation of a democratic republic. I like transparency and I like accountability. But then if you tell them about, say, the Seth Rich conspiracy theory coming out of Fox or all of the Dominion nonsense coming out of Fox, that doesnt tell them to distrust Fox. Right? In September of 1774, the colonists called the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia and decided not to allow any concessions to the Crown. Copyright 2023 IPL.org All rights reserved. The Netherlands, which was engaged in its own war with Britain, provided financial support for theAmericans as well as official recognition of their independence. Biography, Reclaimed: Looking Back at the Abb Grgoire and the French So its been a a minority of it is now in which makes it far more powerful. This is ridiculous. States could not support an established church. As the ideas spread over the years American and French lives would change slowly. I honestly could see that in our cards in the near future because I dont see what else aside from some huge radical change like that is going to do. You know, towards the end of your book, you lay out with what you call it James Madisons vision of pluralism. The Haitian Revolution was the most radical. Im so tough that I would watch Texas to secede or Tennessee or Georgia just a seed. How was the American Revolution a civil war? Back across the Atlantic Ocean, the people of the French colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) on the island of Hispaniola were watching the French Revolution very closely. And I just heard this for years with Trump. So you went from holding your nose in twenty sixteen to third bass boat in the boat parade in twenty twenty. We will all continue the work of trying to better understand our fellow citizens, but doing these focus groups, listening to podcasts, grappling in a real way with what theyre telling us. We are all no longer conservatives were all rhinos. And so if thats your news environment. So it was a better system than Id seen before. It sets the course of the cultural river and you see it in military units. For the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of Republicans. Their eyes are wide. The all-day siege and capture of the royal fortress by a mob of revolutionaries resulted in more than 100 dead or wounded rioters, as well as the murder of the fortress' military governor, Bernard-Jordan de Launay. Of a national divorce, but I want to play you just as a setup here. In the early nineteenth century, some Latin American revolutionaries wanted exactly that. Maybe its both. Framers of the United States Constitution would use these ideas. The purpose was to scare people to support the revolution or they would die. This is the kind of group where you see the most change. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1808) was, more than any other, a social revolution for human rights and equality regardless of skin color. If you missed it a couple weeks back, Margery Taylor Green tweeted, we need a national divorce. if you can work out a detail. And then heres the other problem, Sarah Longwell can point to scandals, you know, in mainstream or left wing media, and that are real that happened and are bad. But the bottom line is theres a ninety plus percent of Republicans who will go as far as far as their politicians take them. I mean, if youre talking about in the millions, yes, but as a percentage of Americans, low. And we also know, Sarah, if Chris Ruffo came out tomorrow and said, I have concluded that Donald Trump has committed crimes. And then it runs in to the new course of the river. Like, as I was watching group. that is exactly how this group was. 4.6. Were being pushed apart on multiple fronts, including geographically, for example, that people are super clustering into very bright red, into very bright blue parts of the country. So as Howard Kurt said, he was on Fox and said, Im not allowed to cover this. The American and French Revolution are both remembered in history as two major changes that would shape what we know today. From the beginning, sea power was vital in determining the course of the war, lending to British strategy a flexibility that helped compensate for the comparatively small numbers of troops sent to America and ultimately enabling the French to help bring about the final British surrender at Yorktown. We dont, but we asked our focus groups about it anyway. The nobility and clergy blocked King Louis XVI's attempts to raise taxes. American A "Reign of Terror" followed the revolution (American, French, or Both?) And and the reason that I like that so much is that what I feel like politicians are doing right now is I believe and no ones gonna talk me out of it that people are essentially good. Beginning with the Stamp Act of 1765, Great Britain tried and failed to raise revenue from their subjects in the American colonies. Its very hard. Almost had a civil war. So Trump set a particular tone of endless combativeness of constant rage. Painting of several large sailboats on a stormy sea. A new nation was born, but it was not entirely egalitarian. Direct link to Quinn H.'s post Which one is most importa, Posted 9 months ago. PDF The French Revolution & American Revolution Comparison Lesson Plan 11 I just trusted that that was how the vote was recorded. This information is like the biggest word out there. You were just talking about it, about this latest thing with Fox News and what makes me so mad about that Fox News thing is and you hit this. It was a bloody battle between the Mexican people and people who were loyal to Spain. American Reaction to the French Revolution - ThoughtCo A less radical declaration of independence followed in 1821 through an alliance of rich Creole elites and more conservative clergy. Although Great Britain, Spain, and France settled in the Americas, their colonies developed in almost completely different ways, like: The Spaniards colonized mainly in South and Central America for economic purposes, like to grow sugar, which lead its colonies to be mainly plantations; The Frenchs main goals in the Americas were to trade fur with the Native Americans and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean to trade with Asia; and the Britishers came here for two main purposes, one for economic matters and to avoid the religious conflict that was happening in England. The American, French, and Haitian Revolution all had the similar causes of a tyrannical government. thanks so much for having me. The years 1750-1900 are better known as the Revolution Era. In the northern regions of Latin America, the revolutionary general Simn Bolvar successfully fought Spanish forces and created a short-lived "Gran Columbia" between 1819 and 1830 that was modeled after the United States. Like, some some ways, were such couch warriors and, like, keyboard warriors now that Im not sure we could muster. Oh, you cant take that seriously. The Proposed "Judicial Revolution" in Israel: What Can we Learn from So theyre gonna watch Fox and they will know nothing about all of the hosts that one of those people just mentioned as being pretty much straight shooters. The French Revolution focused the same idea as Thomas Hobbes. And thats enough in close states to really make all the difference. The thesis of the book is really stated in the first sentence of the book, which is that there isnt any truly national, cultural, religious, social, political trend that is pulling us together more than its pushing us apart. Oh, god. Is the way that they perceive Marjorie De La Grida is having sort of like a legitimate role in the coalition. The French Revolution was not successful in forming a democratic government due to France's history of a monarchy, economic issues and divison among its' people. And and theyre theyre fighting. By the end of the summer of 1789, all the privileges of the nobility and the church were abolished, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen declared that all citizens were equal before the law and had individual rights. Everyone I talked to says this. Revolutionaries were inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment including individual freedom. It can happen. What were some other sources of the Haitian revolution? I was gonna say yes to both. My guest today is David French, newly minted New York Times opinion columnist and author of divided We Fall Americas secession threat and how to restore our nation. The French colony was the richest plantation colony in the world, with around 8,000 plantations that produced 40 percent of the world's sugar and about half of its coffee. Mhmm. Yes. And lastly, the British stripped the Americans of their rights and exploited them for much of their own possessions. The Mexican Revolution for Independence lasted for 11 years from 1810-1821. And so, you know, I think just to set the stage for this conversation, can you just give us like the thesis of the book? So much of it is this, like and people talk about this all the time. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). And so therefore, what about them kind of justifies that, well, the left has people like this in their coalition, so we get to have people like this in our coalition. From the top down, there is a cultural course that is set. Maybe somebody could explain it to me a divorce from what? Americans fought the war on land with essentially two types of organization: the Continental (national) Army and the state militias. By the end of the second close read, you should be able to answer the following questions: At the end of the third close read, respond to the following questions: A painting shows a city on fire. Yeah. Because the word exhausted. And Im with these awesome people who dropped everything when they heard the tornado had happened, descend upon Mayfield, Kentucky. We dont know anything about compromise. In 1810, peasants in Mexico revolted because they wanted their own land and because food prices were too high. Yes. Use evidence from this article and other material in this lesson to defend your claim. We make this sphere of liberty bigger. Right? Shes never been conservative about anything. Also the American colonies had an army of trained officials led by George Washington, to fight against the British. The American Revolution was based on liberty, equality, and justice. Both of the revolutions were liberating, but the French revolution was more violent and bloodier than the American. Both revolutions were driven by a desire for greater freedom and equality, and both resulted in significant changes to the respective countries. Compare and contrast the american and french revolutions. The Theres no such thing sort of historically as well. Although the American and French revolutions were very similar in the actions, there were many differences leading them into ultimately different paths and states of rest. And yet the most unbelievable things often comes out of their mouths. Within the next two years France would completely abolish the nobility and pass its own constitution, establishing a representative democracy. If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. Do you agree with this? Im fifty seven and Ive never seen it like this. But the republic was short-lived. I really have mixed feelings about being the first call when national divorce comes up. Like, on a government building, that was unimaginable. The war was therefore one fought by small field armies. The years 1750-1900 are better known as the Revolution Era. Yeah. And then Fox tells them about MSNBC or CNN or whatever. Yeah. The Americans and French both had a normal stage in which they were ruled by and monarchs were chosen in a traditional way. And it was like a breach of trust between right wing media and the audience that they had cultivated to be distrustful. I dont see so much national divorce rhetoric coming from the left. There was unionist sentiment in the south. If you have super majorities, Tennessee is like an R plus twenty state. No matter their credentials. I mean, being hawkish on Russia is a core right identity for a long, long time. Have no idea where to find the right answer. After twenty twenty two, where every one of the hypermagazine candidates in the statewide swing state election lost, every one of them. And it would. Youre literally not gonna know about one of the most consequential media scandals of my lifetime. The American Revolution against the British during 1775 to 1783 and the French Revolution against their own, French government during 1789 to 1799 were both one of the most important political and social turnovers in the world. That there was a very troubling part about why Nikki Haley could not be the president, and it was super like well, no world leader would take a woman seriously. People heavily associate the French Revolution with the American Revolution, due to the many general similarities. And what I wanted to say was, we cant do this indefinitely without serious consequences? Others were unemployed persons from the urban slums. So thats a sort of a general principal.