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How Did The French Revolution Affect Society

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Throughout the ages multitudes of wars and revolutions have occurred all over the world. Revolutions caused by social injustice, violations of civil rights, and an imbalance of power. Those revolutions leave scars, memories, and create change for the people of the nation and their history, yet these wars rarely have a significant impact on the world around them. However, the French Revolution was able to impact all of Europe making it, the most important event in European history. The French Revolution did not occur overnight, it began with a series of acts done against the better good of the poor and working class citizens of France. Acts like the cutting of wages of workers even though the cost of food was rising. The royal family being …show more content…

The revolution inspired intellect, how people should think for themselves and believe what they felt was right and not what was told to them. With the French Revolution's coming to an end, a democracy was able to come into play and the challenging of the monarch rule began. Robespierre (when he was alive) helped institute the ideas of how taxes should be set at a rate where the people could afford and not at an outrageous cost to benefit royal spending. The French Revolution helped institute the idea of having a freedom of religion and having church be separate from state and religion had no place in government. However, with the positives of this revolt, the ideas of using terror and death as a tool for a usurp also became popular. Countries soon joined in having their own revolutions. With France distracted in their own revolts, many of their conquered areas soon revolted as well drawn in by the glaring glint of possible independence. The French's use of using cruel punishment to control a nation soon spread. Many countries whose leaders feared a revolt may be amongst them took to the use of punishment and torture. The aftermath of the French Revolution was an enormous amount of bloodshed but with blood, came the spreading of the ideas of civil rights, and the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, from the United States, which helped sire the Declaration of the Rights of Man throughout the

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