French Revolution Research Paper

In History, there was the American Revolution, which in fact was a colony under absolutism and wanted to become a free nation, an American nation. The French revolution, which has also inspired many people around the world, proves to be a fight for freedom, liberty, equality and fraternity. It is also to fight off the right of a non- absolutism government and for the rights of the people in every form of class. In this text, we shall follow the progression of the French revolution from its social, economical and political factors until the reign of Terror.

First of all, it all started with the political aspect of the French revolution. The people were tired of an absolutist monarch because the King Louis XIV had everything he wanted and the

While the 3rd estate was doing all of this, the king sent troops to calm down the crowd that were protesting against the king for the shortage of food and hundreds died (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p. 430). After this, the people invaded the Bastille, which was a fortress. This fortress symbolized royal authority but overall to get weapons to join the fight against the king’s army. This was the beginning of an important step of the revolution (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p. 430). Following this, the national assembly created the declaration of rights of Man & Citizens that provided people the rights of liberty, property, security and the resistance of oppression that came with the freedom of speech, religious tolerance and freedom of the press. It provided to the population the right of equality and everyone had a fair right to a fair trial (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, pp. 431-432). Following this, the population still had it’s problem of food shortages and there was many revolts against the king, for example the revolt of the woman’s march towards Versailles which constituted of crowds of woman who confronted the king because of the food shortages in the country and the high prices (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p. 430). The revolution was mostly based on the lack of food, how the political system failed the people in many ways such as taxation and how the economic system that made the country become unstable. The 3rd estate, which constituted of local assemblies of peasants, started to make many reforms like the one where they would sell off church lands to help the economy and get rid of local elites (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p. 432) which were constituted of business merchants, professional, soldiers and aristocrats (Cole, Symes, Coffin, & Stacey, 2012, p. 427). The revolution wasn’t like the American