Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Latin American independence movements


A. The greatest factor was that all of the people living within the countries were sick of being ruled on and wanted freedom so it made it easier for people to motivate them for freedom.

B. Jose De San Matin was the most important because he helped a few countries from way down in South America and also helped Simon Bolivar a little.



Tuesday, February 5, 2013

French Revolution



The weakness of government came when the government leader started to do a poor job with the country. The country was going in the wrong detection and the people were not pleased. They could not handle serious problems and it caused the government to become very weak.

De Facto Government rose in France during the French Revolution when the people of the country were finally done with how the king was running the country and certain people came together and decided that they were going to rule the people. This meant that even though the king was technically in charge, the people were not listening and they were actually listening to the people of France that took over.

The counter revolution happened when the nobles and clergy, peasants, and neighboring states were all worried so the rebelled against the revolution happening. The neighboring states came in to try to keep the revolution from growing to their states. The nobles and clergy lost power in the old government and the peasants just followed the nobles and clergy and stayed by their side.

Splintering among all the revolutionaries occurred when people had been fighting the revolution. Now that they were succeeding though, the groups had their own ideas, policies and goals that would come out of the revolution. This caused them to splinter against each other and try to take each other out.



The country has been through a lot. It needs a new leader to step up and take control. Napoleon steps up for the country and takes over. The leader was necessary and usually has some sort of military background which Napoleon does.