that their positions would be threatened and opposed the French Revolution.

Little did they know that would make things worse off in the end. When the 

leaders made their opinions more public, the French declared war on them.  

This included Spain, Britain and Holland.

was unfair and favoring the rich and wealthy. The 

government decided not to tax the clergy and the nobles.

Instead they taxed the poor lower class. If you were born in a

lower class you could not move up no matter how hard you

worked. 97% of the France's population was in poverty. In 1787, 

the country was nearly bankrupt and a loaf of bread cost a 

weeks worth of money. People were starving while the rich

lived luxurious lives. The lower class then started to resent

the upper class. This and the American Revolution started

the uprising.

the Americans wanted to help. The Americans wanted to help the 

french rebel against their government so the French could develop

a democratic government like the U.S. But America was worried

about France's political instability, violence and social change. 

So important figures like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander 

Hamilton developed opinions on how America should go about this. 

Thomas Jefferson was pro-French Democratic-Republican party 

and supported democratic-republican ideals of the French Revolution. 

On the other hand, Alexander Hamilton created the Federalist Party. He 

was skeptic about the whole thing and didn’t want the British to stop

trade if they went on the French side. Both sides of American parties 

both thought that joining France would lead to economical disaster

and invasion so they decided to be neutral and not take sides. 1790-1794

is when the war became violent. After French King Louis XVI was 

killed, Britain, Spain, Austria and other European countries joined the 

war against France. British then attacked American ships because 

they stayed neutral in the French Revolution.

violent and bloodiest war in history. People still

talk about why and when such violence happened.

The most violent time in the war was called "The 

Terror" and it lasted from 1793 to 1794 in late July.

During "The Terror" anyone who wasn't a citizen was

arrested and supposed to be executed. One of the

people arrested was Thomas Paine who wrote Common

Sense during the American Revolution. He was 

arrested because he was from Britain. During the war 

the French king and queen had their heads chopped off. 

After "The Terror" Thomas Paine was released.

The first life that it took was a man named Nicolas Pelletier

on April 25th, 1792. Ironically, it was used to make capital 

punishment less painful and to end to performance of 

public torture. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine was the person

that created the concept of this machine. He was not 

the inventor though. The actual inventors were in the National 

Assembly and created the machine. The guillotine was also

responsible for countless number of deaths. This was

used to make death equal for all criminals.  This very machine

was the machine that killed King Louis XVI and Marie Antonniete.

French cause in American newspapers. When a French spy named Victor Collot noted 

the weakness in the American West boarder, tension was created between the French 

and Americans. So the congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts to stop so many 

French from coming here. The Alien and Sedition acts did not allow French refugees

 to participate politically and to make it longer and harder to earn citizenship. So 

French refugees went back to Haiti and France where it was politically calm. Congress

wanted citizens to vote for John Adams so they would have a president that was against

the French Revolution. Swing voters then voted for Thomas Jefferson (pro French) instead 

of John Adams (against French). Americans sympathized with the French but never

got involved.

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http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/16-educational/history/266-french-revolution.html

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This declaration was very similar to the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

It said that all men were equal and that social classes would be destroyed. 

All men had the rights of life, liberty and property. After the war, the National Assembly would rule with the King.

to different senarios, what the rest of the world was 

like , and what France's government was like

and how it handled it's citizens. I think it was very cruel

how the French government treated the peasants. It just

reminds me of how cruel leaders can be. I am very glad 

we had a good leader for our country 

(George Washington). I also realized why America acted 

the way it did- to stay neutral. At first I wanted America 

to help the French, but as I did more research, I 

realized America had good reasons to not join the 

drama. This project helped me understand what it was 

like in that time period and how each country dealt with 

the situation.

both the U.S. and the French had a revolution they

were very different from one another. I think that

the French had every right to be upset with the 

government and how they were treating people. Although

I don't think they solved things properly with all of the violence.

The French Revolution caused conflict in America which was

very interesting because we are across the ocean. It divided

very important people in our country and pinned them againist

each other and ulitimately ended with Jefferson resigning which

effected our nation a lot. That seems crazy to me. We weren't

even involved in the war and it effected us greatly.