What led to some of the key revolutions in history?

Question

Looking for some examples of the "uprisings" that led to revolutions. It doesn't have to be about war, far example...Henry Ford and the creation of the Model T led to the Industrial Revolution...The Pilgrims wanting to practice free religion led to the founding of America...help!

Answer 1

Taxation-English revolution
Poverty-French
Independence-various
Ineptitude of government,poverty and Rasputin -Russian
Luddites-Introduction of machinery (England)
Cotton Mill Workers revolt-Introduction of spinning machinery England)
Jacobite rebellions-restoration of Stewart Line 1715 ,1745.

Answer 2

The biggest factor in any revolution would be that of being dissatisfied with the status quo. People are seeking an ideal of some sort....

For example:

The Pilgrims wanted freedom from religious persecution that they didn't have in Europe.

The Puritans led the English Civil War against King Charles I and beheaded him for treason to the people, mostly because he married a Catholic while he was king of a Protestant nation. The Puritans wanted to establish a theocracy under Cromwell, and did so for a while until Cromwell's death. Then the English asked King Charles II to assume his father's throne, and eventually that led to a Constitutional monarchy, which exists in the UK to this day.

The Revolutionaries in France wanted to change their entire ancient regime caste society to a model of democracy when they captured the Bastille in July, 1789. (Unfortunately, that ideal didn't last.)

The Russians wanted a Socialist society in 1918, and overthrew the 300 year old Romanov Dynasty. Czar Nicholas II and his family paid for that ideal with their lives, as did many others.

Inventors and innovators in the Industrial Revolution wanted goods produced faster and cheaper. Technology has always been about that, up to this very day.

The current Information Revolution was created by dissatisfaction with how knowledge was transmitted, and the Internet was born.

Any uprising begins with the ideal that things can better. Whether the various Revolutionaries stay true to that ideal is a matter of human nature and history.

Answer 3

So you are looking for the movements behind changes. In the late 1800s mine workers realized the only way they could get better pay and safer conditions was by standing together. The first unions were born that way. Workers no longer had to depend on the generosity of employers for better working conditions. They could demand that employers give them what they needed (within reason).

Oh, the Pilgrims wanted the freedom to practice their own religion in a country where they could speak English and be English. They first settled in the Netherlands where they had religious freedom, but their children were becoming Dutch. They made the move to America where they founded the Massachusetts colony.

By the way, not everyone among the Pilgrims agreed with the stringent religious practices. People left the Massachusetts colony and founded the Rhode Island so they could have more religious freedom than they gained in Massachusetts. Rhode Island was predominantly Quaker, but permitted other groups in.

In the 1800s, the Mormons found themselves oppressed in the Eastern states so they moved west for their own religious freedom.

In the 1960s, the People's Temple found themselves oppressed and ultimately moved to Jonestown in Guyana.

Answer 4

Just so you know Henry Ford and the model T was the first example of assembly lines and mass production. The Industrial Revolution ,however, started in the late 18th early 19th century in English textile mills.

Answer 5

Industrial revolution, the ability to travel much faster with trains, and the ability to use resources more efficently then ever.

Answer 6

Freedom or rather a lack of freedoms that are god-given