Tonight's reading largely in part revolved around the post era of the Atlantic Revolution. It focused mainly on three challenges the world had to resolve. Those three challenges were:
1) The Abolition Movement and the end to slavery.
2) The Formation of Nationalism.
3) The Feminist Movement.
All three of these movement have played an important role in exactly how our Governments, Nations, and Societies are shaped. It is hard to imagine not having our ancestors go through the trials they endured to fight for what they believe was just and right, and because of each and every one of these movements countries around the world are now offering better opportunities, for a bigger majority of their people.
The Abolitionist Movement is really the only movement I happened to learn about in previous history classes and this maybe because it sparked the biggest part of the Enlightenment Movement, and helped shape our own country's history in a unique way. With this movement the world was able to spark ideas of liberty and equality. Ended slavery in the European nations as well as start promoting the working and middle classes giving them better opportunities as well.
Nationalism and feminism movements both had last impacts through out the 19th C. People began migrating to industrialized cities, and a lot more political ideologies began to be practiced. Women started to ask for more rights, such as to own land and have divorces, and overall people began to separate themselves for the governments who once had control over them, and they began to make their own constitutions and nations.
Without these three movements that largely shaped the 18th and 19th C. our world today would look much different. I can only imagine what it would be like to not part take in my voting rights or have to defer to a man, to get a proper education. The Atlantic Revolution has helped shaped the world today by giving those people previous to my generation a different outlook on how life can be. It only serves to make me wonder if things hadn't changed what would my view points be today?
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