people were fighting for had a few stipulations. First, most of the liberals were men, it was a shared opinion between these men that equality with women was neither wanted nor needed. Second, these liberals did not believe everyone should be equal economically; only that everyone had an equal chance to gain economically. These liberal ideas reflected the Enlightenment’s stress on human dignity, personal liberty, and human happiness, along with its faith in science, rationality, and progress. This period of revolution brought around changes in government and the economy. The rational ideas of liberty and equality were the catalysts for these changes....
