Revolution Essays

The Haitian Revolution and The American Revolution were similar and different in many ways. First, both the revolutions had a prominent leader, Toussaint L’Overture and George Washington. Second, Haiti stressed freedom while Americans focused more on the needs of middle class. Also, both of these countries would have been unsuccessful …

Many people wonder what makes a person become president? A truly complicated question like that is hard to follow with bare facts. There are so many different personality traits and social events that can alter how people look at other people, therefore outcome for a presidency election can go either …

America’s War of Independence was a political and military struggle among the thirteen American colonies and England. Since the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in the French and Indian War, the result was British control over much of North America. This was had cost England a great …

Che Guevara was a key personality who played a pivotal role not only in the revolutionary movement’s seizure of power in 1959 but also in the social revolution which transformed Cuba into a Communist state. Guevara contribution was primarily as a unifying and driving force of the revolution behind the …

One could find hundreds of books concerning the Russian revolution; however, it was George Orwell’s Animal Farm that shed light on the corruption of the revolution. Even though Animal farm is clearly a satire on the Russian Revolution, it can easily be compared to many revolutions, especially the Cuban. Both …

The civil war has often been called “The second American Revolution,” primary because many Americans actually thought they were once again fighting for their freedom and rights. While this is true, the Civil War itself was revolutionary. It was revolutionary in the political, social and economic conduct of the war. …

In the 1500’s and 1600’s, some startling discoveries radically changed the way Europeans viewed how and why things happened in the physical world. Three scientists who contributed to these changed were Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. These scientist changed some beliefs of which many had been believed for …

“The Progressive movement of 1900 to 1917 was a triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism.” I disagree with this statement. The basic philosophy of “conservatism” is that change is bad. The basic “historian” definition of progressivism is: a movement for social change and improvement. For this reason, …

During the beginning of the Revolution many documents, speeches and drawings were created in an attempt to unify the colonists and fight the British tyranny. Of these documents, there were three that played an important role in the Revolution. These three documents used similar writing methods to persuade colonists into …

The Industrial Revolution was a major turning point in world history. The term industrial revolution originally referred to the inventions and changes that transformed England, between 1750 and 1830, from a largely rural people making a living almost completely from agriculture to a urban or suburban society occupied more and …