The author is illustrating that there were major changes during the revolutions in the Atlantic world from 1775-1825. Some of the changes are social and economic, enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality, and the costs of colonial warfare. In the year 1776, second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence; and by 1783 Britain recognized the independence of the thirteen colonies. Furthermore, other events that occurred was in 1715-1774 which was the Reign of Louis XV in France, Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture in 1743-1803, and the Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France in the year 1790.
Five Major Themes
The social change; during the eighteenth-century, European society became legally divided into groups with special privileges. For example, nobility and clergy are
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Some of the important aspect for the calling of the liberty was first about the individual’s human rights, second was for a new type of government, and equality.
Limitations of liberty and equality: the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights exemplified the strengths and limits of what was established as classical liberalism. Liberty means the representative government but doesn’t mean democracy with its principle of one person, one vote. Not only that, new republic failed to protect the Native American tribes when most of their lands was territory ceded by Britain at Treaty of Paris. However, in 1787; Constitution promised protection to Native Americans which guaranteed them that their lands wouldn’t be taken without consent.
Napoleon’s expansion in Europe: napoleon was a great military man after he came into power in the 1799. During his term in the office, he sent peace feelers to Austria and Britain the dominant powers of the Second Coalition. Nonetheless, in 1802 Napoleon was secured but still motivated to expand his