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The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror. Maximillian Robespierre. Leader of the Radical Left-Wing Jacobins Paranoid about threats to the revolution. Leader of the committee for public safety. The Reign of Terror. Over 2,000 people executed in Paris!

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The Reign of Terror

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  1. The Reign of Terror

  2. Maximillian Robespierre • Leader of the Radical Left-Wing Jacobins • Paranoid about threats to the revolution. • Leader of the committee for public safety.

  3. The Reign of Terror • Over 2,000 people executed in Paris! • Small crimes had stiff penalties. Talking poor about the revolution, not watching executions etc…

  4. Primary Sources

  5. Political Debate • Jacobin (Far-Left) • “We must suspend free speech and liberty so we can win the war. Otherwise, there will be nothing left to defend.” • Girondin (Center-Left) • “We must preserve the ideals of free speech and liberty at all costs. Otherwise, the French Revolution is not worth fighting for.”

  6. Political Cartoon • Caption: • “It is dreadful, but necessary.”

  7. Robespierre Quote • “If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible...It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed.”

  8. For the Rest of the Class Period • Create a piece of Revolutionary propaganda, either written, or a political cartoon. • Advocate for or against the use of “the terror” • Should be as if seen in a newspaper. • Be Creative, have fun!

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