legislative body called the Legislative Assembly. This constitution limited the king's power but still contained a monarchy. It also gave taxpaying men above the age of 25 the right to vote. Execution of the King and Queen / Beginning of the Reign of Terror- January 21,
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declaration of rights of man, abolishing of olds reign, execution of king and queen, the reign of terror, and war and forming of the citizen-army. The long term effects were the rise of Napoleon, spread of revolutionary ideas, growth of nationalism, and the conservative reaction. The contributing factors to the French Revolution was the economic crisis in France. The French government had undergone economic crises, resulting from the long wars waged during the reign of Louis XIV, the losses incurred in the
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Joshua Muench July 24, 2014 Western Civ Part 2 The French Revolution The French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790’s with the ascension of Napoleon Bonaparte. This period in European history is one of the most bold and iconic periods in the west and through it came many things of significant historic value. During this period, French citizens radically changed and redesigned their country’s political landscape, a system of century old institutions such as absolute monarchy
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The French Revolution © Student Handouts, Inc. www.studenthandouts.com The Old Regime (Ancien Regime) • Old Regime – socio-political system which existed in most of Europe during the 18th century • Countries were ruled by absolutism – the monarch had absolute control over the government • Classes of people – privileged and unprivileged – Unprivileged people – paid taxes and treated badly – Privileged people – did not pay taxes and treated well Society under the Old Regime • In France, people
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During this reign, Stalin was able to slowly gain power of the party when he was chosen to be general secretary of the Communist Party. The position was not seen important to some as Stalin was incharge of planning meetings and events for the people working above him
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Joseph Stalin’s control over Russia is equated to the gain and loss of different economic and humanity-related aspects in Russian society, however, one loss in particular that his reign signified was that freedom was one thing that the Soviet people would live without. Despite the Soviet people’s lack of freedom, they rallied around Stalin and the Bolshevik party, thus creating a seemingly unified nation. The Soviet people, without any outward opposition, obeyed the state and devoted themselves to
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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future ”-Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler and his regime is a great example of how a society based of hate will not last. After reading Book One in 1984 by George Orwell, one fundamental question is brought to mind, can society based on hate survive? In the book, the main character, Winston, believes that a society based on hate would basically kill itself. Another character in the book, O’brien, said
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th PreAP Literature 11 11/11/2015 Sadists And Their Destruction Ken Kesey, Edith Wharton, and Tom Schulman all have created literary works involving the sadistic enforcer of conformity. These characters take pleasure in the terror and pain they instill in those who reside under them and have been also shown to go to quite drastic and destructive measures to ensure the conformity of the populace they command, even completely destroying someone’s life for “the good of all
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Newton | England | 1640s-1730s | Newton's Three Laws, the Invention of Calculus | Issac Newton was the physicist who discovered gravity and created calculus | Robespierre | France | 1750-1800s | Reign of Terror, Jacobin Club | Robespierre was the leading figure in the French Revolution Reign of Terror | Elizabeth I | England | 1550s-1600s | Spanish Armada | Elizabeth I was the last queen of the Tudor dynasty, and she stopped the Spanish Empire. | Louis XIV | France | 1640s-1720s | Edict of Nandes
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Revolution”, started peacefully and eventually involved other European countries. It later became violent in 1792 when France declared war on Austria and to make matters worse, King Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793 and the church was attacked. The Reign of Terror had begun shortly after and that made the Federalist aristocrats nervous while the Jeffersonians believed that a few thousand aristocratic heads were a cheap price for freedom. The French Revolution eventually sucked Britain into
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