I believe that Robespierre was a tyrant. Even though he was an influential political figure during the revolution, many thought he was cruel and absolutely crazy. He started out as being a leader that had always spoke up for the lower classes, the rights of Jews, black slaves, actors, and religious discrimination. He led the committee of Safety and faced several challenges. Such as the European armies planning to crush the revolution, peasants were taking violent actions, and the city of Lyon had rebelled. The revolution was becoming violent and so did he. The committee created the Reign of Terror, thinking it would be the solution to all these problems. Robespierre did not forgive the rioters and began this Reign of Terror, in which he believed was necessary. The whole point was to keep people terrified from misbehaving. Those he thought that were too moderate had their heads cut off. He had secret police spread out over the country to terrorize people. He had killed many people, an estimated amount of 40,000 were killed in the summer of 1794. -S.A
I believe that Robespierre was a tyrant. Even though he was an influential political figure during the revolution, many thought he was cruel and absolutely crazy. He started out as being a leader that had always spoke up for the lower classes, the rights of Jews, black slaves, actors, and religious discrimination. He led the committee of Safety and faced several challenges. Such as the European armies planning to crush the revolution, peasants were taking violent actions, and the city of Lyon had rebelled. The revolution was becoming violent and so did he. The committee created the Reign of Terror, thinking it would be the solution to all these problems. Robespierre did not forgive the rioters and began this Reign of Terror, in which he believed was necessary. The whole point was to keep people terrified from misbehaving. Those he thought that were too moderate had their heads cut off. He had secret police spread out over the country to terrorize people. He had killed many people, an estimated amount of 40,000 were killed in the summer of 1794.
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