Starting in 1793 January and ending in 1794 July these eighteen months were a time period with endless bloodshed to the french, resulting in over 20,000 deaths by the execution of guillotine. Various reason to be sentenced to death but, most causes of death was their ideas that they came up with, methods, and even threats or conflicts. People ponder over whether they think that in the end the Reign of Terror was justified or not, but in the end was it really worth to have that many people die? They could have figured out a different path to take in order to have the same results, but spared an exceptionally greater amount of innocent people.
One of the reasons towards why the Reign of Terror was not reasonable was that the people were living in fear of being executed, so they did what they could to not have their life come to such a fate. People blamed others of breaking the law so they were not suspected by the government. In document D, “Already several of these bandits have been arrested,” people who have been speaking their beliefs, or standing up for what they feel is right is resulting in them being treated like criminals. The “Committee of …show more content…
In document A, the government is accused by the national assembly that “The ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public calamities the corruption of the government.” In document B it states "Government denies legal counsel to accused enemies of the revolution. Law of Suspects passed which limited rights of the accused. Forced military draft. Committee of Public Safety cracks down on rebels." As people were being forced to fight and sacrifice their lives even if they did not want to. With the Reign of Terror was not justified as the people had to fight in order to end everything, when they could have tried other ways without getting hurt and
One of the reasons towards why the Reign of Terror was not reasonable was that the people were living in fear of being executed, so they did what they could to not have their life come to such a fate. People blamed others of breaking the law so they were not suspected by the government. In document D, “Already several of these bandits have been arrested,” people who have been speaking their beliefs, or standing up for what they feel is right is resulting in them being treated like criminals. The “Committee of …show more content…
In document A, the government is accused by the national assembly that “The ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public calamities the corruption of the government.” In document B it states "Government denies legal counsel to accused enemies of the revolution. Law of Suspects passed which limited rights of the accused. Forced military draft. Committee of Public Safety cracks down on rebels." As people were being forced to fight and sacrifice their lives even if they did not want to. With the Reign of Terror was not justified as the people had to fight in order to end everything, when they could have tried other ways without getting hurt and