And the Reign of Terror The French Revolution Objective Review the causes of the French Revolution Analyze the Declaration of the Rights of Man Go over the Reign of Terror Analyze the Justification of the Use of ID: 796871
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Journal Writing: As of January 2015, America’s National Debt is over $18 Trillion dollars. This is equal to each U.S. citizen owing over $56,000. Do you think that America’s debt is out of hand? What do you think should be done about America’s debt?
Slide2And the Reign of Terror
The French Revolution
Slide3ObjectiveReview the causes of the French Revolution
Analyze the Declaration of the Rights of Man
Go over the Reign of Terror
Analyze the
Justification of the Use of
Terror
**This is important because the ideas that were fought over during the French Revolution are still being debated around the world today.
Slide4Review of the CausesDebt
Inadequate leadership
Food shortage
Income Inequality
Enlightenment ideas
Slide5The 3 Estates1st Estate = Clergy2nd Estate = the Nobility
3rd Estate = Everyone elseEach Estate had 1 vote
Slide6Why the 3rd Estate was upset:
The debt & hunger affected the 3rd Estate more than it did the other 2 estates.
There were heavy
t
axes that only the 3
rd
Estate had to pay.
Slide7The Tennis Court OathTennis Court Oath
creation of the National
Assembly (a new government body).
Goal was to create a new constitution
.
Louis XVI sent troops to Paris
The Storming of the Bastille
The Declaration of the Rights of
Man was drafted.
Slide8The Reign of TerrorA time in which a Radical group called the Jacobins took power in the National Assembly. They used fear & terror in order “protect” liberty and keep France safe.
Maximilien
Robespierre was the leader of the group.
In less than a year, over 40,000 people were put to death.
Guillotine
Summary execution
Slide9Many famous people were executed including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Georges Danton, Louis Philippe II Duke of Orleans, etc.
Slide10Justification of the Use of Terror:
85% of the people executed during the Reign of Terror were peasants and members of the working and middle class. Why is this ironic?
The revolution was originally meant to help the people of the 3
rd
Estate. Soon, those same revolutionary leaders, those champions of the people, became the tyrants.
Slide11France at WarWhile this was going on, France was at war with Austria, Prussia, Spain, Great Britain and Holland. These powers were not happy with the French Revolution. They hoped to restore the French Monarchy. Why do you think they wanted to do this?
Slide12End of the TerrorEventually, France had enough. In 1794, the National Assembly arrested and executed Robespierre by way of guillotine.
By the next year, a new government was created called the Directory.