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Chapter 16 discussed the Atlantic Revolutions and the global echoes that occurred during and after. The three revolutions were the North American Revolution (1775-1787), the French Revolution (1789-1815), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The North American Revolution was inspired by the idea of progress. The British government needed money, this made the Americans think about the enlightenment, which caused the revolution in turn. The French Revolution happened so soon after the American Revolution because they were inspired by the American Enlightenment; liberty, causality, and fraternity were all aspects that contributed to the French Revolution. During the Haitian Revolution, there were three groups that consisted of 500,000 slaves, 40,000 white people, and 30,000 free people of color. The Abolitionist movement was inspired by Haitians. The former slaves that were literate were the ones that further encouraged the movement, they made awareness campaigns and were abl...

Foundresses week here at Notre Dame de Namur celebrates our foundresses Julie and Francoise. During the week there are many different activities that have us all join as a community and give us a bit of history of our community. Julie and Francoise lived very different lives but had the same core values, Julie lived a life of luxury but had no interest in education unless it was religious. She had everything but didn't want to follow her families footsteps. For Francoise, it was much different, education and health was very important to her and her family; she just wasn't wealthy like Julie was. I found reading about the foundresses to be very eye-opening because I never knew much about who they were or what their value were. I learned from a young age about Judaism since that's what I grew up around, but now I have a new view of another religion and it showed many similarities and differences.

I found it interesting when discussing the reading was how our roles of superiors have changed over the centuries. Before it was common to have kings be our leaders with a divide in religion, region, ethnicity, or class. Now, you will most likely see a white male leading our country with less royalty and more so all business and politics. I wonder how this change began to occur and why we don't have kings or queens ruling out country like how some others do. I can see the pros and cons of both having a president and a king/queen, but I question why America has come to its conclusion with having many run for office.