12/13 Class

• The Great Fear led to the Feudal system being abolished
• The declaration was passed because it reinforced the changes that were being made
• What did the national assembly want?
• wanted to give more equality and change the government
• Give more power to the people
• The declaration of man was the foundation for the changes
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  The church is a source of traditional power and had a lot of influence
• The French tried to weaken power of the church because of their large influence
• Tried to give power back to the people
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• International response to the revolution
• Edmund Burke of Britain- he felt the French was throwing the baby out with the bath water
• Meaning they took the revolution went too far with the Revolution
• Jacobin is everyone in the convention
• Separate groups were the...
• Girondists and the Mountain
• Girondists are moderate closer to the center
• The Mountain are radical
• The change of the calendar (10 day weeks) and creation of metric system was to deemphasize the role of the church
• When they divided the land into 83 districts they wanted to get rid of of the land to get rid of the feudal system
• How the revolution that was supposed to be based on equality and enlightenment ideals for all end in a dictator?
• Robespierre got in charge
• He was guillotined in 1794