...September 5, 1793 was the end of Louis XVI rule and the start of the Reign of Terror where 40,000 people were executed. In France, Louis XVI has just been guillotined and everyone is deranged and confused. This marked the 18-month period of the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was lead by Maximilien Robespierre and the government proceeded to execute a large number of people. The government was targeting individuals that were considered to be enemies of the revolution. One of those targets was the Catholic Church which they saw as outdated. While outside the country there was tension that escalated into war. They were facing problems inside and outside the country. Was this method of execution during the Reign of terror justified. The reign of terror was not justified because the outside threat did not require it, the inside threat did not deserve it, and the the methods were to extreme. External threats did not require it. An example of this is that they closed the churches by revolutionary government and that is wrong because people should always be able to choose what they believe in (Document A). Another example is the government denies legal counsel to accused enemies of the revolution (Document A). It not right to treat people disrespectfully for thinking differently than the...
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...Should people go to the extreme and provoke the rights of citizens if that meant they were protecting the country? During the French Revolution in the late 1700’s, France went to extreme measures to protect their country and called for The Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror killed thousands of people, mainly using a guillotine, to protect their country without actual evidence of why they were an enemy or threat. The Reign of Terror was not justified because of their very extreme measures and killings, not enough or no evidence at all for the killings, and for violating the rights of the people. Under any circumstance, there is no reason a person’s rights should be violated, if they do not have enough evidence. Document A shows us the many...
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...In the Reign of Terror thousands of people were killed and arrested. The French people tried to kill the enemies within the country. Also France won a war. The Reign of Terror was somewhat justified because some good things came out of it, many people were killed, and the guillotine. The Reign of Terror was somewhat justified because some good things came out of it. An example is, since the French were killing enemies within their own country they were gaining victories outside their country like in the war against Austria and Prussia (Document B). Also in document E they mention that the Committee of Public Safety was established with the purpose to protect the citizens from the enemies within and outside of France (Document E). In addition to establishing the Committee of Public Safety the Committee of Public Safety was successful and quashed the enemies. Also the...
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...Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 until the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Its purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders. Phase of the French Revolution. It began with the overthrow of the Girondins and the ascendancy of the Jacobins under Robespierre. Against a background of foreign invasion and civil war, opponents were persecuted and 16000 executed by the guillotine. The reign of terrors methods were used , and losing a lot of their population using forces like the guillotine, as in document F the methods were way too harsh the guillotine was Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,000 death sentences in France . However, the total number of deaths in...
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...DBQ: Causes of WWII The road to appeasement, and thus to armed conflict, began in 1932 when the National Socialist party took control of the German government through a congressional election that gave Hitler authoritarian power. Tyranny must be fought when it first occurs as it is a virus that can spread if it is not eliminated. As Winston Churchill said, “I have always held the view that keeping peace depends on holding back the aggressor.” Unfortunately, Churchill’s predecessor believed in appeasement and diplomatic means when dealing with Germany, choosing not to believe that Germany had “made up its mind to dominate the world by fear” already. Unfortunately, by the time Great Britain, France, and Italy, had no choice but to knowledge this, plunging into WWII was their only chance of stopping Germany and Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror. There were many instances where one would hope that the international community would step in. The League of Nations was created by the Treaty of Versailles. However this organization did not react to earlier similar aggressions. For example,Italy attacked Ethiopia in 1935. Haile Selassie was the emperor of Ethiopia at the time. He approached the League of Nations and asked them to defend them with military sanctions. They did nothing. Selassie’s response was that “God and history will remember your...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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