FRENCH REVOLTION

THESIS

• The French Revolution was the most dangerous revolution, because 17,000 were executed during the Reign of Terror without trial, 40,000 were killed during the French Revolution, and unknown numbers of people dies in prison without execution.

FRENCH REVOLUTION

• The French Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1799
• Most of the citizens razed and redesigned France's political landscape.
• The third estate now represented 98% of the people who could be outvoted by the two political bodies.
• The wave of sickness(the fervor & widespread of hysteria) majorly decreased the population.
• The European's power & intense divisions within the National Convention, brought the French Revolution into its most violent and turbulent form.

SOCIAL CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

• In 1789 20,000,000 people were located in France's borders, but 20% of the people were Prussians.
• Over the century France's population decreased to 8-10 million people. Only 600,000 were left in France's borders in 1789.
• Most pamphlets didn't have much power to destiny the Third Estate.
• One of the laws ( Le Chapelier Law of 1791), this was one the National Assembly made, which differentiated the workers from the land.
• Tyrants rebelled against the government's rules, decisions at Bastille, which is a prison where most people stayed and was the largest prison in all of Europe.

REIGN OF TERROR

• The Reign of Terror began on September of 1793
• The Reign of Terror was where most people were executed and punished.
• This act was responsible for executing King Louis XVI & Queen Marie Antoinette.
• In addition, the Reign of Terror was the biggest part of the revolution,a DN soon became the symbol of it.
• Most of the mass executions were also made from the Committee of Public Safety
• This also made an uprising in the French Revolution.
• Catholicism was the major religion in France but also became abolished because of the law of abolishing religion during The Reign Of Terror.

THE ROLE PEASANTS PLAYED IN The FRENCH REVOLUTION

• Peasants burned the lords feudal files because they didn't have the same rights as the First and Second Estate.
• Peasants became impatient with waiting to be heard
• They did widespread attacks, because of their temper.
• Another reason that the pas ants revolted against the king and clergy. They had to do whatever the clergy commanded.
• Peasants didn't have much power to decisions, of the complaints. They would always get out voted during the Estaes-General.

DURING THE REVOLUTION

• There was abolishment during the war because of parliament changing the laws.
• Peasants and tyrants revolted at the prison of Bastille in 1790.
• During the Reign of Terror, Maximilian Robespierre was the most powerful and influential man that mostly executed the king and queen.

DURING THE REVOLUTION 2

• The National Assembly declared the intentions of the people & renounced war (violence),
• This action wrought the king's power, of ruling the country and making laws.
• Very few people were dismissed for the charges that were put against them. Most were found "guilty" and were sentenced to death.
• The sentence considered of house arrest, beheading, murder and/or starvation.

EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION

• At the end of the Revolution, the Third Estate was made a Tennis Court Oath. This gave them the right to create a new constitution and laws.
• The constitution was called "Declaration of the Rights of Man". It was like the Declaration of Independence, but instead, had no bill of rights. This still kept the nation in law and order.

EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION 2

• There became an increase in the people and peasants living in France.
• After the French Revolution, the absolute monarchy was abolished and the constitutional monarchy was established in 1799.
• France became a strong nation power because of the stability they had after the war.
• Religion was restored, and everyone had equal rights. There was a right to vote, and a say in government.

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