Instructions: Answer the Following Questions As You Watch the Video. (If Absent, Make An

World History Video Notes 3: Full Name:______Ms. Avar Period #:______Point Value: Terror to the Today’s Date:______/ 5 End Assignment #:______Instructions: Answer the following questions as you watch the video. (If absent, make an appointment to get answers from the sample binder and/or find them on the class website).

1. A member of the National Convention notes the 2. Four years into the Revolution, what is the rest of Europe doing to the borders of France? pointless waste of as one after another of his colleagues are lost to the guillotine. 3. D’Antone and Robespierre want to save the Revolution. They convince their colleagues to 4. They said to “make ______the order of institute a menacing new form of Marshall law against the day.” ______and conspirators.

6. If you were seen or suspected to be a traitor to the 5. In remarkable reversal, the revolutionaries suspend new ways of France, including even saying “madam” the new ______and all the or “monsieur” (the old way of addressing people) instead of “citizen” (the new way of addressing ______it was to guarantee. people), what happened to you?

7. A twelve-man council was created and called the 8. How does Robespierre respond when people throw Committee of ______. In reality, this it in his face that he becomes a proponent of terror and the guillotine? What does he say? was really just a collective ______. “______”

9. People start to say that because it’s about 10. As a “revolutionary weapon” against the Church, “superstition and fanaticism” the root of all the the radicals started a new revolutionary calendar. The problems is priests and ______years started with the date being when they ______(Sept 1792) They say that they only way they’re ever going to be safe against enemies of the revolution is to destroy the power of the ______

11. What day of the week did the revolutionary 12. Who was in charge of the French army that sent calendar get rid of with their 10 day calendar? British army into retreat?

13. Robespierre wanted to use even more terror to 14. By the spring of 1794, conditions were better in make a “Republic of ______”, meaning that France (food and war situation improved). What did D’Antone said that France needed to get a new footing everybody must be ______citizens of the state, in government and move towards what? which also included killing enemies of the state. 15. How did Robespierre feel about D’Antone’s 16. During the time of Robespierre’s “GREAT suggestion? Terror”, how many executions were they having per month in Paris?

17. June 6, 1794 – Robespierre declared a new 18. What did people start to wonder about Robespierre religious holiday (1:22:46). Festival of the Supreme during all of this? being. He wants to replace the old Catholic god with a new one: “The goddess of ______”

(ie. “The cult of the Supreme Being”)

19. Deputies declare Robespierre an “outlaw”. When 20. What does Robespierre’s cellmate point to when they went to arrest him, what did they find? he said, “At least we did that”

21. After Robespierre was executed – something 22. Five years passed before power finally necessary for the people to “end the terror” - France consolidated (came together with some strength). entered a period of uncertainty. Who did it belong to? They feared: - Another ______- (Worse) a return to the oppressive ______

23. Historians disagree on the end of the Revolution. 24. The French Revolution forever changed the course Some believe it died with the rise of Napoleon. Others of Western Civilization. The questions raised by the maintain that it lived on into the 19th Century and French Revolution is: beyond. But most all agree that the Revolution is the first and enduring model of people taking: How much ______is justified in achieving a ______? ______Do people have the right to ______what they see as an unjust system to replace it with what they are convinced in their hearts is a more ______?

25. More than 200 years since the Revolution, the 26. The French experiments with ghost of Robespierre hangs over revolutions from ______have inspired models all Russia to ______, from China to over ______.

“Wherever tyranny takes root, the cry of justice is eternal for liberty, equality, fraternity…. for revolution.”

27. A famous quote about what was happening in France is, “The Revolution is like Saturn, devouring its own children.” Explain what you think that means: