The Reign of terror was a violence event which took place 15 months after the French Revolution. 16000-40000 people were killed during the reign of terror. Many famous and well know people were executed by guillotine. They were executed in front of an audience to show that people who don't support them that they will to have the same end. French nobles and clergy were not approving of this new terror, as they now had to work and did not received any goods from the peasants.
Maximilien Robespierre tried to erase everything related to the Old Regime. Churches were closed as it was one of the major strain on peasents. He, acting as dictator, was the cause of The Reign of Terror. The governed people were scared and tired of his idea of guillotine punishment, they did not feel safe. They organized a revolution against him and he was executed the same way, he was guillotined, The Reign of Terror was over.
The Reign of Terror was caused because democracy, that the people fought for, was not granted to them. They had to fight against this Reign of Terror as they fought against Louis the XVI. It ended in bloodshed among brothers but have now earned their freedom. The Terror ended the same way it began; With the guillotine
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