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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.