French Revolution
Reign Of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Executed Robespierre for fear he would gain ultimate power.
Robespierre executes anyone less radical than he or potential rivals to his power
Robespierre lead committee who was in charge of France at time
Maximilien Robespierre
Executed when CoPS turned on him
tried to wipe out all traces of nobility and Clergy
Represented 3rd Estate in Estates General
Jacobins.
Execute Marie Antoinette
try and execute Louis XVI
Radical Political Party
Legit Revolution
Radical Measures
1st and 2nd estates slaughtered by mobs to never let them be given their power back
Louis' guards massacred and royal family imprisoned.
Austria and Prussia pressure the revolution with demand Louis be put back into power.
Reforms.
Set up Legislative Assembly
Confiscated Church Lands
Declaration of Rights of Man adopted
The Spark.
Bread Riot signaled the end of the monarchy
Citizens storm Bastille for guns, weapons, troops.
Louis stations troops outside Paris
Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes
Social Contract theory.
Believed that humans desire power
Strong Central Government needed
John Locke
Two Treatises
State of nature is unsafe and insecure.
Priveledge of people to be able establish new legislature
Nobody has more power of authority over another.
Lockes ideals
Locke believed that people are born without "programming" that they must learn to be good or evil.
Tabula Rosa.
Philosoph.
Government has power because people consent to be governed.
Made people believe they should be judged as individual not by social class.
Influenced the nature of society.
Financial Crisis
The Spark
Lead to National Assembly.
Lead to Tennis Court Oath after Louis XVI locked peasants out of meeting.
King Louis XVI called for meeting of the estates genreal to solve crisis.
lead to reign of terror.
Demand for Constitutional Monarchy.
Tennis Court oath.
France is bankrupt
Bread Riots.
3rd class is getting irritable due to lack of food and government.
Reign Of Terror.
