Revolution from the European Government

Revolution from the European government

After Columbus discovered the Americans and the Natives received the ideas of the Enligement from the Europeans, there were world crisis at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Europe and America not just exchanged goods and people; they also exchanged ideas that came from newspapers and books that mentioned the improvement of human condition.  People from the colonies started to question the old ways of thinking like the divine right of kings, state control of trade, aristocratic privilege, the authority of a single church; all those ideas left violent revolutions and new states and societies were created with new ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism, and human rationality. The idea of “popular sovereignty” (authority to govern comes from the people and not from God) was the promise that people receive as a part to participate in those revolutions of liberty from the Europeans. But woman, slaves, Native Americans, and men without properties did not gain much from those revolutions but they tough that in the future their conditions would improve because they were protesting against oppression, tyranny, and deprivation that they been suffering from long time.

Even though all the colonies were able to independence from the Europeans, between North and South America there is a difference of 50 years as been colonies among them. The reason is simple, the society were so divided by class, race, and religion. The necessity of an awake call for “nativism” was need it in which all people born in the Americas, creoles, Indians, mixed-raced people, blacks; understood that the attack was against their common enemy, the Spaniers.

To me, it is sad to see that until now those differences still exist. We know that slavery was abolish long time ago, but there is different ways to keep someone against their will like kidnaping, human traffic, prostitution, and so on. There are people that still believe in classify others depending on their wealth and power. The purpose of study history is for the people do not commit the same mistake that people in the pass did, but looks like we are repiting our same from the pass. We want to differences between the rests of the population because we believe that we are superior. What it is the point in does that if we know that we know each other for everything.