| Term | Definition |
|---|
| French Revolution Date | 1789-1815 |
| # of people in France | 25,000,000 |
| 1st Estate 250,000 | 1%, clergy and royals, hated Enlightment, no taxes, land, money, privilleges |
| 2nd Estate 500,000 | 2%, Nobles, interested in Enlightment, some taxes, govermnent jobs, privilleges |
| 3rd Estate 24,250,000 | 97%, everyone else, loved Enlightment, large taxes |
| What were the Factors to Revolution? | Deficit spending by Louis XV, Enlightment, Taxes, Food Prices Rising, Failure to Reform, American Revolution |
| Estates General | Meeting of estates- first in 175 years |
| Outcome of Estates General | Tennis Court Oath |
| Tennis Court Oath | No one backs out until Constitution is written |
| First Phase | National Assembly (Tennis Court Oath) |
| July 14, 1789 | Storming of the Bastille |
| Bastille | 800 people want weapons |
| Invalid Hotel | Where the people get their weapons |
| Agarian Revolts | Five revolts in fifteen days following the Bastille |
| Great Fear | Fear of foreign invasion |
| National Guard | started to defend France |
| Marquis de Lafeyette | Hero of Two lands |
| Decleration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | Taxed According to Pay, Any man can hold public office, Louis XVI accepts but puts more troops in streets |
| Madeline Chabray | 17 year old leader of the group of women who stormed the Palace of Versailles |
| Marie Antionette | "Let them eat cake" Austrian Queen of France |
| Tuileries | Where Marie and Louis XVI are put during their house arrest |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy 1790 | Revolution is split between the Church and the State |
| Constitution of 1791 | Limited monarchy, creates Legislative Assembly |
| New Ideas of Legislative Assembly | Abolish old courts, reform laws, free trade (Adam Smith) laissez faire, distribute land, no labor unions |
| French Plague | Emigres spread revolution to other countries |
| King Leopold II (Prussia) | Brother of Marie Antionette, bargins to get them out of house arrest |
| What do the French do after they "Go Punk" | Invade many other countries, currency then goes down and prices rise |
| San-Coulottes | more radical action for the working class, hate Louis XVI, are a left wing extremest group |
| George Jaques Danton | Leader of the Jacobins |
| Jacobins | Left wing extremest group who support Legislative Assembly and hate Louis XVI |
| What are the countries the Legislative Assembly declares war on in April, 1792 | Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, Austria, Netherlands |
| Right Wing | Hope war will cool off revolutionaries |
| Left Wing | Hope war will spread war all over Europe |
| Reign of Terror | Second Phase 1793-1794 |
| What happens after mob invades Tuileries? | Louis XVI loses head, guilty by one vote |
| Execution of Marie Antionette | October 1794 |
| After execution of monarchs... | France becomes a republic |
| Louis XVII dies... | of an unknown cause |
| National Convention | formed by Legislative Assembly and National Assembly |
| National Convention View | All male votes (suffrage), abolish monarchy, France becomes a republic |
| C.O.P.S. | 12 members with absoloute power to save revolution |
| Leader of C.O.P.S. | Maximiliem Robespierre (incoruptable)- loved by San-Coulottes and rules by terror |
| Reign of Terror | Nine months- 50,000 die by guillotine |
| The Directory | 1793-1794 |
| Constitution of 1795 | Five Man Directory, Two House Legislative Branch |
| Practices of Directory | Corrupt and steal money, can't win war, bread prices go up, chaos, San-Coulottes riot |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Promising Corsician war hero who is used to help Directory |
| Accomlishments of Napoleon | Beat British @ Toulon, Defeated Austria, People loved him |
| Women in the Revolution | Jeanne Rowland, Olyme de Gouges, Madame de Condoret |
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