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Robespierre and the Reign of terror was a time during the French Revolution when the nobles, the king, the clergy and the lords began to lose most of their power over the people in the lower class men. However the people who were gaining power in France were now becoming greedy and power-hungry. The outcome of the king losing his power came the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period of violence with the enemies of the Revolution. A limited Monarchy was set up; A legislative Assembly was set up to work with and share power with the King. The kings didn’t like this at all because they wanted to have absolute power over everything. While France was figuring out was to do with the new people in power, a new group of people who called themselves The Jacobins, took over. Who ever disagreed with there opinions would get there head chopped off. The guillotine was the machine that they used to cut off people heads.
You could be a friend of Robespierre one day, and sent to the guillotine the next. Robespierre even killed Louis XVI widow, Queen Marie Antoinette. Her last words were: "Monsieur... I beg your pardon. I did not do it on purpose". After The king and his widow's head were cut off the people of France were in shock and scared.
As time passed by and leaders struggled to get power back from Maximilien Robespierre. Kings, queens, and jacks were removed for faces of revolutionaries, the calendar was changed, and church’s in Paris were closed. His rule was called the Reign of Terror. It was named like this because people were executed, and scared.
Even people who worked with Maximilien were scared of him they made sure of no stupid movements because they didn’t want to have their heads chopped off . During the Terror, approximately 3,000 people were executed in Paris. People were tired of being scared so they organized a conspiracy or a team of people who worked together to gain power again and he was executed. He was killed by having his head chopped off just like he did to all of the other people in France and finally the Reign of Terror was over.
1. Many people were critical in France of the:
a)Nobility because they had control of pretty much all the peasants in France and they also didn't have to pay military service. Aside from not paying military service they also didn't have to pay much taxes either, and some didn't pay any taxes at all. The nobility or the high class lived the luxurious life.
b)The king because he had control of absolutely everyone and everything in the kingdom.
c)The Clergy because they had their own estate or social class. Also they had their own rules and regulations.
2. In 1789 a French peasant would have grumbled about how they had to pay both the clergy and they lords. They were the biggest estate in France, but the ones who had to pay the most. In my opinion they probably paid double half was for themselves but the other half was for the nobles, who paid no taxes.
3. The cartoonist was drawing about the how France was divided pretty much into three social classes; the clergy, the nobles, and the peasants. It's trying to say that the clergy and the nobles lived the good life few taxes while the peasants paid their taxes and worked hard for nothing.
4. The author says that the peasants have a lives full of suffering. They suffer enough as it is paying feudal dues to the Lords. To one lord they must pay with about everything they have, and to the other lord they must pay equally the same leaving them with nothing. But that isn't all they have to also pay taxes to the king which are equally as much or more than what they pay to the lords. This means they are left with nothing to eat or to buy anything for themselves.
5. Sources A,B, and C don't exactly explain why poor people resented the rich, but it explains many motives as to why they would hate them. It states that they pay too much taxes and shows that the rich people earn more than enough to pay taxes as well. But on the other hand it shows that the peasants hoped to one day not have to pay as much taxes or work for such little amount of money. So it never states that they resented them it just shows motives.
6. Jean Jacques Rousseau influenced the peasants because they were tired of paying unnecessary taxes and working hard for nothing. The word Democracy meant a lot to them, it meant freedom of taxes and hopefully a better government. A better government meant more rights and a better life for the peasants.
7. The nobles would probably have banned this pamphlet because they didn't want the peasants to rebel against them. They didn't want them to open their eyes and say i deserve a better life, i deserve not to pay taxes, those were things that the higher classes didn't want, especially the king. The king would hate this because it meant that there was less money coming in from the peasants.
Thomas Jefferson's ideas on the U.S. Consitution were heavily influenced by John Locke. The "Rights" that Jefferson is talking about is: Liberty, Life, and The Pursuit of Happiness. It is the right of the people that if the people don't like how the president is doing his job they could replace him with someone that can do the job right. According to the Declaration of Independence, the people have the right to abolish and make a new government if the actual government becomes destructive. The government gets its power from the people because the people have the power to change or alter the goverment if something is going wrong.
There are two theories about the solar system one is called geocentric and the other is heliocentric. Heliocentric is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the universe. It wasn't until the 16 Th century that the theory became known because of Polish mathematician and astronomer Copernicus. But before the Scientific Revolution started, many people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and the all the planets and the stars including the Sun orbited around the Earth; this theory is called the geocentric.
The geocentric theory was brought up by Nicolas Copernicus. Copernicus examined the motions of outer space and the earth and came up with the heliocentric theory. Unfortunately, not many people believed the heliocentric theory because Copernicus didn't have much evidence to prove his point. Due to the lack of evidence, many people continued to believe in the geocentric theory. In addition to the no one believing Copernicus, The Roman Catholic Church went against him because the bible states that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Galileo's trial toke place because he also believed that the Sun was the center of the universe and all the other planets revolved around it. The trial was held by the Roman Catholic Church because Galileo promoted his and Copernicus's theory in a book he wrote, which went against the teaching's of the bible and those of the church. The Roman Catholic Church pretty much made Galileo plead guilty, which put him under house arrest for the rest of his life.
The scientific method was created to prove that there are certain concepts people will believe if there is evidence. Without evidence it's hard for people to believe your argument. In the beginning of time either you got your ideas from ancient Romans or Greeks or from the Bible its self. The bible and the Greeks said that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Since people believed this and many theories for many years The Scientific Revolution created a lot of eye opening and controversy. Scientists then began to conduct experiments to get to the truth as close as possible. The experiments and its procedures were called: The Scientific Method. It has a total of four steps: Observations of the theory, the hypothesis to explain your opinion, and experiments proving that your theory is true (which is performed more than once), then a collection of the experiments in a table or graph.
Robespierre and the Reign of terror was a time during the French Revolution when the nobles, the king, the clergy and the lords began to lose most of their power over the people in the lower class men. However the people who were gaining power in France were now becoming greedy and power-hungry. The outcome of the king losing his power came the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period of violence with the enemies of the Revolution. A limited Monarchy was set up; A legislative Assembly was set up to work with and share power with the King. The kings didn’t like this at all because they wanted to have absolute power over everything. While France was figuring out was to do with the new people in power, a new group of people who called themselves The Jacobins, took over. Who ever disagreed with there opinions would get there head chopped off. The guillotine was the machine that they used to cut off people heads.
