Effects of French Revolution

• Changes Brought About Because of the Revolution

  1. The National Assembly governed France from 1789-1791

  2. Ended the old regime

  3. Abolished remaining feudal rights

  4. Cancelled tithes and pensions

  5. Reorganized local government

  6. Confiscated church lands and sold to peasants

  7. Ended church privileges

  8. Drew up a new constitution
• New Constitution of 1791


  • Made France a limited Monarchy
  • Sharply limited the king's powers
  • Put power to make and enforce laws into the hands of the legislative Assembly
  • Gave the right to vote to people who had property
  • Made the Declaration of the Rights of Man part of the constitution
• Important principles in the Declaration of the Rights of Man

  • Men were born free and equal
  • All citizens have the right to participate in government directly or through representatives of their own choosing
  • The right to free speech, press, religion and trial by jury are guaranteed
• Monarchy came to an end

  1. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette tried to escape but were captured

  2. People lost confidence in them

  3. Many nobles fled the country and formed armies to overthrow the revolutionary government with assistance from Prussia and Austria
• Jacobins seized control of the government in 1792


  1. Continued the Revolution in a violent way

  2. Two wars broke out between Austria and Prussia and they invaded France

  3. Jacobins led an uprising against the king whom they held responsible for the invasion
• There was a total collapse of the economy and it took a long time for the economy and societal aspects of France to be restored
• Hundreds of thousands of people were dead because of anarchy, mob violence, and civil war
• The French Revolution

  Had a great impact on the colony St. Domingue (Haiti) in the Caribbean
• The slogan of the revolution in France "Liberty! Equality! and Fraternity!" influenced the different groups in St. Domingue to fight for the same things resulting in the Haitian Revolution