Remake of French Revolution Timeline Individual Work by William Wang [STUDENT] https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe Use this padlet to note the key events. For each event, include a title, a short description, and an image. Look at this Chinese Cultural Revolution one as a sample. https://isbeijing.padlet.org/nan_jiang1/mpruocbj2h62i5h3 en-us 2022-02-22 01:42:30 UTC 2022-04-10 15:32:48 UTC hello@padlet.com May 1789: The King Summons the 'Estates General' williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2065841164 -France was bankrupt so Louis had to try to raise taxes. Therefore he had to ask the 'Estates General' for more money.
-The Estates General was the legislative and consultative assembly of the different 'Estates': the clergy, the nobility, and the rest. They voted on the king's proposal.
-The Third Estate wouldn't support the king's tax proposal and got angry at the other two estates and left the meeting hall. Louis XVI closed the meeting hall's door and the Third Estate was forced to move to an indoor tennis court to meet. There they formed the National Assembly.]]> 2022-02-25 05:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2065841164 July 14th 1789: The Storming of Bastille williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068110467 -People in Paris believed that military are ready to attack, and they decided to arm themself. In the early hours of July 14th, a crowd stormed and raided hôtel des invalides, a military hospital. They secured themself with a large number of rifles.
-However, they weren't able to find any gun powders. In a prison fortress, towering over Paris, The Bastille.
-Mid-morning, the crowd gathered around the Bastille, and demanded the men in charge to surrender and give up the Bastille.
-The crowd later began attacking, taking the french troops inside, and took over the Bastille.
-This is the begin of the Peasant Uprising]]> 2022-02-27 11:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068110467 June 20th 1789: The Tennis Court Oath williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068110940 -The Third Estates demanded a share of power.
-Ideas opposed the King and by the richest members of the first and second Estates. 
- When the king tried to break up the meeting, members of the third estate met in a nearby tennis court.
-They took the Tennis Court Oath in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace.
-The vote was "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established"]]> 2022-02-27 11:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068110940 August 26th 1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068112440 - Passed by the National Assembly on August 26, 1789.
- Promised freedom to the people of France.
- Not being the people of the King, being the citizens of the country.
- Pursues the equal right of every estates.
-This document was created with Thomas Jefferson's help. (3rd America President)
-But most of the rules only fit for mens.
-This is the end of Peasant Uprising.]]> 2022-02-27 11:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068112440 October 5th 1789: March to Versailles williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068113196 -A crowd of Women, 7,000 strong, decided to remove that separation and confront the king directly.
-They march all the to the king's palace in Versailles.
-the crowd continue to grow and got to around 10,000.
-Members of the crowd manage to break into the palace with the intention of killing the queen. The queen escaped from a secret passage in her bedroom.
-They killed several members of the royal guard, and piked them all
-The King had no choice but to talked to the crowd; He agreed to accept his new position, sharing power with the revolutionary government.
-The King was forced to return to Paris.]]> 2022-02-27 11:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068113196 June 20th 1791: Royal Family Attempted to Flee, Captured at Varennes williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068113763 -On 20 June, 1791, King Louis attempted to escape from Paris and leave France, to the Austrian Netherlands, but he was captured at Varennes
-The King and it's family disguise itself as servants.
-This led a call of France being a republic.
-The king was forced and taken back to Paris.
-The new constitution of 1791 completely reduced his power to a constitutional monarch.
-Louis was accused of being a traitor who did not do enough to protect his country against invaders.]]> 2022-02-27 11:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068113763 April 20th 1792: War with Austria williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068114076 -The Austrian Duck of Brunswick invaded France and threatened to destroy Paris( in the spring of 1792). He later invaded France in August.
-France was not only war with Austria, they later on declared war with Britain, Prussia, Russia, and several other monarchies.
-July 25: Austria and Prussia threaten to invade France if any harm comes to the Royal Family.
-This has caused the September Massacres that got more than 1,000 people that are suspected as Austrian supporter killed.
-This has spread fear around Paris, since there was food shortages, unemployment, and crimes.

]]> 2022-02-27 11:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068114076 August 10th 1792: Crowd Attacks the King at Tuileries Palace williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068114814 -The National Guard of the Paris Commune and fédérés from Marseille and Brittany stormed the King's residence in the Tuileries Palace in Paris, which was defended by the Swiss Guards.
-Around 1,200 people were killed in this event.
-Louis and his family was imprisoned. On 21 September a new parliament was set up. It voted for republic.

]]> 2022-02-27 11:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068114814 January 21st 1793: King Louis XVI was executed williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068116416 -In December 1792, Louise XVI was put on trial. He was accused being a traitor, with one more vote, it proved that he is guilty and is sentenced to death.
-21 January, 1973, King Louie XVI was executed  at the "Place de la Revolution" in Paris]]> 2022-02-27 11:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2068116416 September 5th 1793 – July 28th 1794: Reign of Terror williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073349764 -Held by Robespierre and other members of the Committee of Public Safety.
-Robespierre announced "Terror is the order of the day." (Fear has official government policy)
-These military threats helped cause new rumors of a royalist plot to overthrow the revolution.
-Spies and secret police were everyone, and watch the people closely. France's public has to be extreme careful about what they said and how they behaved.
-The Committee of Public Safety said that the Terror was needed to get rid of the royalists.
-George Danton was executed in 5 April 1794 because of trying to end the terror.
-Robespierre's reason of starting this terror was;
 -To found and consolidate democracy.
 -Achieve the peaceable reign of the Constitutional law.
 -A strong government is made with brutality, not with calm.
 -Killing every enemy will make us stronger.
 -Government needs to include both Virtue and Terror.
 -Terror is nothing than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
Statistics:
-About 3000 executions took place in Paris, and about 14,000 in the rest of the country.
-One of the first to die was Queen Marie Antoinette, executed in October 1793 for treason.
-A man named Joseph thought that the Guillotine is too slow, so he ordered that over 300 people be killed by cannon fire.
-At Nantes, barges containing 2000 people were towed out in to the middle of the river Loire and scuttled.
-Eight out of every ten people who died in the Terror were poor people and not rich nobles. Most of them are found guilty because of the crimes against liberty.
]]> 2022-03-02 11:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073349764 April 6th 1793: National Convention Gave Power to The Committee of Public Safety. williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366353 -The political group which controlled the committee was the Jacobins. The leading figures of this Committee was Maximilien Robespierre.
-In June, the Convention passed the Law of 22 Prairial, it allowed juries to convect people without hearing any evidence.
-Revolutionary tribunals had the power to award the death penalty for many different political crimes.
-In September, the Convention passed the Law of Suspects, people could now be put in prison without trial.
-Laws that has been passed during this period has greatly influenced The Reign of Terror]]> 2022-03-02 11:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366353 July 28th 1794: The Execution of Robespierre williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366487 -Through out he spring of 1974, execution reached an unprecedented level, this period was known as The Great Terror:
  -People that were closes to him was sent to the Guillotine because of opposing his idea.
-On July 26, he made a speech to the National Convention, "I have in my hand a brand new list of enemies to be sent to the guillotine! And many of YOU are on this list! But I'm not going to tell you who yet, what do you think of that?"
-After hearing this, the political members started to unite their power. He was blamed for the killings even though he had had the backing of the entire Convention.
-On the 27th, He was arrested, but the jailer refused to lock him up. Later that night he was arrested again in the Hotel de Vile. He was shot in the face.
-On the morning of 28th, he was sent to the scaffold, and was executed. The Terror was over after his death.
-The Thermidorians became the next government after Robespierre's death.
-Many other political members that was close to Robespierre was later executed as well.
]]> 2022-03-02 11:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366487 July 27th 1794 - November 25th 1795: The Thermidorian Reaction williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366540 -104 Robespierrists executed, inaugurating a brief “White Terror” against Jacobins throughout France.
-The people in France decided to blame Robespierre and his followers for all of the death during the terror. The Jacobin Club and suspected revolutionaries were targeted. The massacre of these group was known as the White Terror.
-The White Terror was mainly carried out by a group of Muscadin, street fighters organized by the new government.
-Although there wasn't as much as the people killed in the Reign of Terror, still a numerous number of people was imprisoned, and hundred were executed.
-French armies has took over Netherland and forced Prussia, Spain, and several German state to sign treaties for peace.
-On August 22nd of 1795, a new constitution called the Constitution of the Year III, it eased back some democratic element of the Constitution of 1793.]]> 2022-03-02 11:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073366540 July 17th 1793: Execution of Charlotte Corday williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073368841 -Charlotte Corday was executed by the guillotine in July 17, 1793. 
-She died because of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat. 
-She want to bring piece back to France, and she blamed all these violence on Marat due to his paper.
-She was only 24 when she was executed. 
-Her dream of restoring piece died with her.
-Marat became more famous in France after this.]]> 2022-03-02 11:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073368841 August 4th 1789: End of Noble Rights williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073382718 -The National Constituent Assembly announced, "The National Assembly abolishes the feudal system entirely."
-A new law ended many of the powers of the nobles and the church.
-This stopped them punishing peasants in their own private courts, and taking taxes and tithes from them.
-All adult citizens get the right to vote.]]> 2022-03-02 11:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2073382718 Hero: Napoleon Bonaparte williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2075265448 A Brief Bio:
-A French military and political leader.
-Rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
-He was the de facto leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804.
-He supported the French Revolution in 1789 while serving in the French army, he won several battle and son became a national hero.
-He started the Napoleon war within Europe.
-His reign of power is from 18 May, 1804 to 6 April, 1814.
-Born at 15 August 1769, and died at 5 May 1821 with an age of 51.

Hero or Villain?
Napoleon is definitely a villain, and he is an excellent general. He fought over 70 battles, and was defeated in only eight of these. He transformed the way in which the French army operated and turned France into the greatest military power in Europe. His confidence and ambition inspired his troops, and their victories brought glory to France, winning half of europe's territory. He brought France many years of prosperity. He didn't do foolish act like King Louis, or create Terror like Robespierre. He is definitely a complete hero in France.]]> 2022-03-03 07:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2075265448 Villain: Maximilien Robespierre williamwang5 https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2075269238 A Brief Bio:
-A French lawyer and statesman.
-One of the most import people in The French Revolution
-A member of the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club
-He campaigned for universal manhood suffrage and the abolition both of celibacy for the clergy, and slavery.
-He was elected as a deputy to the French Convention in early September 1792 but was soon criticized for trying to establish  a dictatorship.
-In July, he was appointed as a member of the Committee of Public Safety, and reorganized the Revolutionary Tribunal.
-He started the Reign of Terror because he believed that this could help him consolidate his government, and a strong government is made with virtue and terror.
-He sentenced with his committee about 3000 to death in Paris, and about 14,000 in the rest of the country.
-He was later arrested on July 27th 1794, and the next day was executed, ending his dictatorship in France.

Hero or Villain?
Robespierre is definitely a great Villain, he started The Reign of Terror and The Great Terror, killing more than 14,000 people in The Reign of Terror. He believed that killing all "enemies" could consolidate his government system, and stating a successful revolution is made with virtue and fear. He started to be a great politician, he is one of the creator of the fascinating writing, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens. However, around The Reign of Terror, he has become a bit mental, and even claiming he as the new god in his religion. He has brought death to many innocent life in France, and that would cause him to be one of the most brutal devil in the French Revolution.]]> 2022-03-03 07:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/williamwang5/bdnn889zaqbmmvbe/wish/2075269238