The History Book

THE EARLY MODERN ERA 199 under his reign many Protestants were imprisoned and many others fled from the country. THE SPANISH ARM ...

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202 F rom the late 18th century, history took on a perhaps delusory air of “progress.” Change accelerated and seemed to have a c ...

203 raw materials for their factories, and markets for their new products, found them in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They a ...

204 WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776 ...

205 See also: The Battle of Quebec 191 ■ The storming of the Bastille 208–13 ■ The Slave Trade Abolition Act 226–27 ■ The 1848 r ...

206 defeat, in October 1781, the British surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia. The war would not formally end for another year, but ...

207 He understood that the destiny of the US lay in its colonization of the vast lands to the west, he assented to the notion th ...

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210 O n July 14, 1789, an enraged Parisian mob, seeking weapons to defend their city from a rumored royal attack, stormed the cr ...

211 The storming of the Bastille symbolized the start of the French Revolution. The prison held only seven prisoners in July 178 ...

212 abandoned hope of reasserting his authority. Large numbers of French aristocrats—emigrés—had already fled France, fearing th ...

213 Robespierre’s single-minded pursuit of revolutionary purity reached an improbable climax with his creation in 1794 of a new ...

214 N apoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, south of Brussels, on June 18, 1815 marked his final overthrow as Emperor of t ...

215 See also: Louis XIV begins personal rule of France 190 190 ■ The Battle of Quebec 191 ■ Diderot publishes the Encyclopédie 1 ...

216 LET US LAY THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN FREEDOM WITHOUT FEAR. TO HESITATE IS TO PERISH BOLÍVAR ESTABLISHES GRAN COLOMBIA (181 ...

217 See also: The signing of the Declaration of Independence 204–07 ■ The storming of the Bastille 208–13 ■ The Slave Trade Abol ...

218 They came to resent the fact that ultimate authority was exercised by a distant monarchy, and saw no reason why they should ...