REVOLUTION BRINGS REFORM TERROR A Timeline Aug 1789

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

1790 National Assembly reforms status of Church 2. What caused the peasants to oppose many of these reforms? • Many were Catholic & resented efforts to make the church part of the State

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

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

Sept. 1792 Parisian 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

Jan. 1793 King Louis XVI executed

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

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.

1794 Robespierre executed

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

émigrés • Members of the French 1 st and 2 nd 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