The main reason why the early battles of the Civil War favored the South is because the South was technically fighting a defensive war--meaning that the North had to make the moves and troop plans that brought them into southern territory, which allowed the South to prepare better.
Initially, other rulers in Europe were somewhat pleased that the Bourbon monarchy in France was being reduced in power by the effort to make it a constitutional monarchy. But as the French Revolution proceeded, other ruling houses and nobles in Europe felt the threat that such revolutionary fervor could pose to their own positions, and were ready to fight to stamp out the Revolution. Revolutionary France went to war against those other nations, and when Napoleon took over power in France, he continued those wars and won conquests. Napoleon brought the Civil Code that contained some of the basic ideals of the Revolution to other territories that his empire controlled. Even after Napoleon was defeated, the ideas of liberalism that the French Revolution had unleashed remained as a powerful force, and the 19th century would see a recurring series of revolutionary movements across Europe.
<span>Although most of the settlers were Protestants, Maryland soon became one of the few regions in the British Empire where Catholics held the highest positions of political authority. Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was one of the first laws that explicitly dictated religious tolerance, though toleration was limited to Trinitarian Christians. </span><span>
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C; he supported an industrial nation which happened to be centered in the north.
The French Revolution is important because it was a major change in government; it brought an end to absolute monarchy and a start to a representative government.
