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REVOLUTION BRINGS REFORM & TERROR

REVOLUTION BRINGS REFORM & TERROR. A Timeline. Aug. 1789 National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man. 1. What are some rights this document guarantees French Citizens?. Liberty Property Security Equal Justice Free Speech Free Religion.

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REVOLUTION BRINGS REFORM & TERROR

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  1. REVOLUTION BRINGS REFORM & TERROR A Timeline

  2. Aug. 1789National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man

  3. 1. What are some rights this document guarantees French Citizens? • Liberty • Property • Security • Equal Justice • Free Speech • Free Religion

  4. 1790National Assembly reforms status of Church • What caused the peasants to oppose many of these reforms? • Many were Catholic & resented efforts to make the church part of the State

  5. Sept. 1791National Assembly hands power to Legislative Body 3. What political factions made up the Legislative Assembly? • Radicals • Conservatives • Moderates

  6. April 1792Legislative Assembly declares war on Austria 4. What did European monarchs fear from France? • Revolutions would spread throughout Europe

  7. Sept. 1792Parisian mobs massacre more than 1000 prisoners 5. What effects did the September Massacres have on the Gov’t? • Gave up on Limited Monarchies • Called for an Election to replace itself

  8. Jan. 1793King Louis XVI executed

  9. July 1793Robespierre leads Committee of Public Safety; Reign of Terror begins

  10. 6. What was the stated aim of Robespierre and his supporters? • To build a “Republic of Virtue” • He justifies the use of violence & Terror as necessary when fighting to maintain democracy.

  11. 1794Robespierre executed

  12. 7. What were some consequences of the Reign of Terror? • Many shifted from “Radical left” to “Conservative right”

  13. émigrés • Members of the French 1st and 2nd estate who had fled to other European nations and spread stories of the Great Fear. • Result is the strangling of Enlightenment thought in other European Countries

  14. Sans-Culotte • “Without (Knee) breeches” • Working class men & women who pushed the revolution in more radical, violent ways

  15. Jacobins • Political club in support of the sans-culotte • Published newspapers & pamphlets backing the republican revolutionary cause

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