Tyler Wall said...1/6/10

Hello Mrs. Separ. So, today started off with a quiz based on what we had learned over the last few days. The quiz was primarily on several of the pictures we had looked at on tuesday about the French Revolution. We took the quiz for about 10 minutes and than after we finished we passed it up, handed it in, and than we proceeded to go over the quiz and explain what the answers were. The quiz was fairly easy. We then learned of our homework for the night which appeared to be a ridiculous amount of defining words in a letter and then summarizing several parts. We also learned that this would be collected tomorrow and be graded as a quiz grade. We then continued to finish the packet we received yesterday. We first reviewed what we wad done yesterday, going over the Tennis Court Oath, The Storming of Bastille, The Declaration of the Rights of Man, The Great Fear, the March on Versailles, and when Louis XVI and his family were captured by the French after fleeing the country to Austria. After we went over these documents, we then proceeded to go over the rest of the documents which was about how Prussia and Austria demanded King Louis XVI return to power or else Austria and Prussia would declare war on France, based on the belief that the Absolute rulers of these countries feared the beliefs and actions of the french would spread to their countries. After this we learned of how the Legislative Assembly was created which limied the power of the king and then how the National Convention was made which was basically a republic. And also how King Louis XVI was removed from power once again for abusing his power in the Legislative Assembly and then replaced by the National Convention. Robespierre became the leader of this Legislative Assembly and eventually became corrupt and somewhat a dictator. We then learned of how at one point after Robespierre began abusing his powers he had King Louis XVI beheaded by a new invention called the guillotine. He later had the rest of Louis' family beheaded as well. Lastly, we went over how france had gone from an Absolute Monarch, to a Legislative Assembly, to the National Convention with the Committee of Public Safety, and how this period of time was known as the Reign of Terror. That is what happened for the most part in class today and the next person to blog is going to be Alex Hinners.