French Revolution Dbq

First of all, the French Revolution is one of the reasons the Eiffel Tower was built. In 1789 the French Revolution started for many reasons. Those reasons are rising taxes, wanted a new ruler, food shortages, impoverished peasants, ravenous royals and violence. The revolution started as a dispute over tax reforms soon evolved to a movement for political reforms. Also what got the revolution started was the peasants were tired of the high taxes that was only put on them and also the high food prices. During the war they had guillotines that they first used it on one if the leaders of the Reign of Terror, Robespierre. He was sent to the guillotine by his rivals when he was in charge he had condemned many to the same fate. There were also lies, corruption, and angry town

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The French Revolution had straight forward causes. For many years the French had endured inequality and exploration, under a social hierarchy that required them to carry a taxation burden. France was the most expansive and profitable empire yet it is domestic wars. The French were roused by action by political propaganda that took many forms: from high-minded Enlightenment philosophy, to populist pamphlets about the right of people. The noble class wanted autonomy and to share the royal power where the high class, also known as the wealthy bourgeoisie, wanted political representation in France. The middle class wanted food and taxes at a lower cost. Also the middle class wanted the feudal bond and restrictions to stop so they can have relief. Harvest failures, food shortages and price rises in 1788-89 were dangerous exclamation points at the end of this turbulent decade (Llewellyn,

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Next, the revolution started without King Louis XVI knowing, and it just got worse and worse at a great pace. King Louis XVI was not sure what he wanted to do about the revolution. On June 27th, Louis XVI was hesitant to the commoners’ demand and ordered the three estates to meet as one assembly for the purpose of giving France a written constitution. Also, to the oppression and disillusionment suffered by France’s masses another important event is the people overthrow the Bastille. The Reign of Terror followed the opening phase of the French Revolution as a zeal for the reform turned in a fanaticism and violent power struggles (Sookram 42). July 11th, Louis XVI made an ultimate foolish blunder; he fired his chief minister, Jacques Necker considered a symbol of reform with in the government. On July 14, 1789 an angry mob of people in Paris stormed in the Bastille went to the jail cells and freed the political prisoners. Louis XVI was swayed; this time is was the nobility and the clergy. They appealed the king to dissolve the assembly, and he agreed. The capture and destruction of the Bastille on July 14th 1789- a fairly banal event in itself- has become one of the defining moments in western history (Llewellyn, McConnel, Thompson). August 26th the Declaration of the Rights was formed. This was the beginning of the constitution, affirmed that the principle of all sovereignty lies essentially in the nation. After the revolt on July 14th Louis XVI made no effort to suppress the rebels who started the revolution. The violence of the sans culottes, the radicalism of the Jacobins and their fixation with ‘protecting the revolution’ generated so much paranoia that by the autumn of 1793, the revolution had begun to eat its own (Llewellyn, McConnel, Thompson).