French Revolution Dbq

During the French Revolution, France initial plan was to become a better constitution. Louis XVI wanted to reform France, so he made all the three estates prepare cahiers. Some reforms people wanted were fairer taxes, freedom of the press, and regular meetings of the Estates-General. Cahiers allowed Louis XVI to know the problems that the people wanted to fix. With more knowledge of what the public wanted, there would be a bigger chance that they could be fixed. The Tennis Court Oath showed that the Third Estate wanted the chance to have a say in the government and how taxes should be lowered on ordinary items. As time passed the government did many things, like The Constitution of 1791 which set up a limited monarchy. After some time, France goes through a radical phase and violence breaks out and many people were killed.

The French Revolution goes downhill when Maximilien Robespierre became the leader of Public Safety.

He believed that everyone should follow the Republic rule and if they complained, one of the secret policies could hear you. They would either execute or arrest you. During this time about 300,000 citizens were arrested and 17,000 were executed. These people once supported the Revolution and Robespierre didn’t like the people who thought that way. February 5, 1794, Robespierre gave one of his speeches he said “Hail to the Republic” or “Death to the traitors”. The Reign of Terror only lasted for a year but, during this time people were arrested or executed. During, the Reign of Terror France transformed back to the way it was before the revolution started. Robespierre changes France back to its original state, the state that everyone wanted to get out

of.
The Mexican Revolution also had some things that keep them from reaching their independence. Father Miguel Hidalgo was the first to raise his voice for freedom. On September 15, 1810, he brought together a group of people that wanted to fight for independence. An army made up of mestizos and Native Americans, marched to the edge of Mexico City. Creoles rejected this called to end slavery and his want to reform. They were all scared that this would cost them power. Father Miguel wanted to help the slaves, so they all could become free and equal to the people around them. But after a year he was arrested and executed. This was a setback for Mexico because Father Miguel's tried hard for Mexico to be independent. Independence was one of the only things Father Miguel wanted to do but, unfortunately, he wasn’t able to do that. Father Jose Morelos wanted to improve, reform Mexico, abolished slavery, and give men the right to vote. After Father Jose Morelos was shot and killed, some unexpected thing happened in Spain. In 1820 forced the king to create a constitution. This act worried Agustin de Iturbide, he was afraid that the new Spanish Government would have effects on liberal reforms. Agustin de Iturbide spent years fighting Mexican revolutionaries and in 1821 he overthrew Spanish viceroy and Mexico got its independence. After all these years of fighting Mexico was able to become an independent nation.