fighting for their rights turned into fighting for fun. The reign of terror....Heads getting chopped daily people terrified but its okay because they are doing it for their rights. Or is it for their rights? The Reign of Terror lasted less than two years, from the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 to late July 1794. During those eighteen months, more than 20,000 French people were put to death by guillotine. The question is whether or not this behavior by the French government was justified. The Reign of Terror is not justified. This claim can be supported by three reasons: the threats did not require it, the methods were too extreme, and it did not support the ideas of the revolution. The first reason the Reign of Terror was not justified
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this shows that shows the methods were way too extreme because someone was getting executed for speaking up against a cruel government. And the second piece of evidence shows that the methods were too extreme because they tried to smother and take out all their enemies such as the counterevolution Finally, the Reign of Terror was not justified when it came to the ideas not respecting the revolution evidence to prove that is "No one should be silenced on account of his opinions, including his religious views." DOC A my second piece of evidence is "the levée en masse and against laws that tried to abolish Christianity in France'" DOC C In this regard, the Reign of Terror was not justified because in the first piece of evidence it says nobody should be silenced of their religious views but in the second piece of evidence it talks about how they were trying to abolish Christianity. This shows how when they started going deeper into the revolutionary they started forgetting their goals and not even fighting for a reason anymore. The opposite argument could be made about the Reign of
this shows that shows the methods were way too extreme because someone was getting executed for speaking up against a cruel government. And the second piece of evidence shows that the methods were too extreme because they tried to smother and take out all their enemies such as the counterevolution Finally, the Reign of Terror was not justified when it came to the ideas not respecting the revolution evidence to prove that is "No one should be silenced on account of his opinions, including his religious views." DOC A my second piece of evidence is "the levée en masse and against laws that tried to abolish Christianity in France'" DOC C In this regard, the Reign of Terror was not justified because in the first piece of evidence it says nobody should be silenced of their religious views but in the second piece of evidence it talks about how they were trying to abolish Christianity. This shows how when they started going deeper into the revolutionary they started forgetting their goals and not even fighting for a reason anymore. The opposite argument could be made about the Reign of