Chapter 18 Flashcards

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Makeup of the Estates General and reasons for its convening in 1789

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  1. Clergy
  2. Nobility
  3. Everyone else

Financial crisis

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Causes leading up to the French Revolution

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Louis XVI dismisses Maupeou, Versailles, American Revolution, famine, Marie Antionette

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Financial reforms of Charles Calonne

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Gabelle - salt, corveé - peasants’ labor services, taille - property tax

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Grievances included as part of the cashiers de doleances

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Unfair taxes, government spending, unnecessary wars, church corruption, privilege, regular meetings, hunting rights, natural rights

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Creation of the National Assembly

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June 17, 1789; 3rd estate, invited enlightened 1st and 2nd estate, 2nd estate later joined NA

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Facts about the Tennis Court Oath

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Promised to draft a constitution, June 20, 1789

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Facts and significance of the Storming of Bastille

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Beginning of Revolution, went to steal gunpowder, National Gaurd

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The Great Fear

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Fear from countryside that food would be taken away, Revolution spreads throughout France

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The Night of August 4th

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“Feudalism is abolished”, everyone is equal (not really), eased fear

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Declaration of Rights of Man and citizen

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Aug 27, 1789; set up rights, liberty, equality, sovereignty, security, freedom, excluded women

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The “October Days”

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Oct 5-7, 1789; women march to Versailles to get grain, take Louis and family back with them, Versailles is no longer home to monarchy

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Constitution of 1791

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Limited monarchy, legislative assembly, Active vs. Passive citizens

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Declaration of the Rights of Women

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1791; equality in marriage, property, recognition as citizens, women mean successful Revolution

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Economic reforms during the Reconstruction of France

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Deregulation of trade, metric system, Chapelier Law, Assignats

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The Civil Constitution of Clergy

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July 1790; Catholic Church under state control, Jurying vs. Refractory clergy

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Émigrés

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16,000 fled to England, Austria, Netherlands

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Jacobins

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Montagnards; radical, Rousseauian, community over individual, wanted republic

Girondists; wanted constitutional monarchy, majority of legislative assembly

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Sans Culottes- goals and methods

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Wanted
1) end of food shortages
2) social quality
Used crowd action

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The September Massacres

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1200 counterrevolutionaries executed, Sans Culottes, impromptu Revolutionary tribunals

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The Declaration of Pillnitz

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Leopold II, Frederick William II- Prussia and Austria would militarily enforce existing monarchy if royal family harmed

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The National Convention and its actions

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New constitution with democratic principles without monarchy; September 21, 1792 French Republic (first action)

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Countries at war with France by 1793

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Spain, Holland, Austria, Britain, Sardinia

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Levee en masse

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Draft aimed at males- males provide ammunition, Women provide food, children aid women, elderly inspired patriotism

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French Republic and “Republic of Virtue”

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Revolutionary calendar, Notre Dame Cathedral

Dechristianization

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Values important to the Republic of Virtue

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Terror, Repressed woman, community over individual, dechristianization (Deism), revolutionary tribunals

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The Committee of Public Safety

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12 seats, search for insurgents

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Fax about the Reign of Terror

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Decree of Fraternity- promised help for other nations, The First Coalition- defense against France

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Law of 22 Prairial

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Eliminated due process of law, now called “Great Terror”

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Fax about Robespierre

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Republic of virtue, “The Incorruptible”, no virtue without terror

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Results of the Thermidorian Reaction

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Rid of guillotine, Committee of Public Safety abolished, Jacobins and Sans Culottes abolished, White Terror, Constitution of Year III, Vendémiaire Uprising

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“Bands of Jesus” and the White Terror

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Getting rid of all radical organizations to end the Terror

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Women’s rights before and after the Revolution

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Women lost more rights than anyone

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Jean Paul Marat

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“The Friend of the People,” newspaper, republic, end church monarchy and privilege

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Challenges facing the French revolutionary government by 1793

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Monarchy, religious division, economic crisis, émigrés/pro royalists, Asignats, political factions

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Edmund Burke’s View of the French Revolution

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For American Revolution, from Britain, against French Revolution, predicted turmoil

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The Partitions of Poland

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France, Prussia, Austria

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National Constituent Assembly

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Formed after Tennis Court Oath, National Assembly, Constitutional Assembly

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Compte Rendu

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Jacques Necker, presented state of France’s finances, No War debt, pensions

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Reasons for the riots in 1788–1789

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Food shortages