French Revolution Dbq

The French Revolution is the most important and bloodiest event in the history western. Was a social, economy and politic conflict with diverse period of violence, began in 1789 and end 1799 with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. According to the History Channel “the French Revolution was the revolution who more things modified, it got rid of the catholic church, Christianity, the nobility and the king and everything before the begin of the modern world” (course document) where their main objectives were obtain liberty, fraternity and equality. Although it failed to achieve all of its goals and at times degenerated into a chaotic bloodbath, the French Revolution played a critical role in shaping modern nations by showing the world the power

inherent in the will of the people and achieved some of their goals such as terminated the Absolute Monarchy, destroyed the feudal privileges of the nobles, Serfdom was abolished, also archived The Declaration of the Right of Man, whose declared that all humans are equal under the law and should have freedom of religion and the press, Feudal payments to lords and mandatory tithes to the Church were eliminated, the power of the church in politics was shattered, large feudal manors were broken up and all social classes had to pay taxes.
The French Revolution began when the country was government by the King Louis XVI.

Louis XIII stablished absolute monarchy in France during his reign and when his son Louis XVI came to power started economic and religious problem. Frances was happing a crisis moment because the king was spending money extravagantly in war and luxuries consequence of it the town was in bankrupt, besides the rich in France paid no taxes at all. The poor and the middle class, called the Third Estate had to pay them all. The Third Estate thought that it was being treated unfairly. They felt that everyone should pay taxes and that this tax policy was an unfair treatment of the Third Estate. This caused his own people to turn against him. All these action by the King Louis XVI had as consequences two decades of poor harvests, drought, cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices had kindled unrest among peasants and the urban poor. Many expressed their desperation and resentment toward a regime that imposed heavy taxes yet failed to provide any relief by rioting, looting and striking. Later Louis XVI’s controller general, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, proposed a financial reform package that included a universal land tax from which the privileged classes would no longer be

exempt.
In January 1793 the king Louis XV1 was executed, he was accused of high treason against his country and his people.

With his death began the reign of the terror by Robespierre and his followers, was ostensibly a way to provide for the security of the Republic by exposing traitors to the people. In reality, it was used by Robespierre as a means to consolidate and strengthen his hold on power. Instead of putting into practice the democratic ideals of liberty and equality that hi spoke of in public, Robespierre used the terror to execute or imprison thousands of people who he viewed as a threat. The Terror came to an end after Robespierre himself was sent to the

guillotine.
For the next leader after the Revolution was Napoleon, who imposed a dictatorship of sorts, voiding the sovereign democracy of the Revolution. Nonetheless, the Revolution won the public a number of other victories, both tangible and intangible. No French ruler after the Revolution dared to reverse the property and rights acquisitions gained during the Revolution, so citizens who had purchased church land were allowed to keep it. The new tax system remained devoid of the influence of privilege, so that every man paid his share according to personal wealth. Moreover, the breakdown of church and feudal contracts freed people from tithes and other incurred fees. That’s not to say that all was well: French industry struggled for years after the Revolution to regain a foothold in such a drastically different environment. On the whole, however, the French people had seen the impact they could have over their government, and that liberating, inspiring spirit was unlikely ever again to be suppressed.
In conclusion, the French Revolution had great result, with the death of the king Louis XVI they achieved terminate with the Absolut monarchy, and achieved a just taxation, the third estate was take in account, they were able to get rid from the reign of the Terror and finally achieved with the declaration of the right of the man, more equality and liberty, now they have free of expression and more right of which they were denied.