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AOS2: Consequences of French Revolution (Key Events) Flashcards

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Bien Nationaux

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) November, 1789

2)
- Consolidation of new regime

3)

  • Church authority removed (no longer monopoly)
  • Bourgeoisie economically empowered

4)

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Civil Constitution of Clergy

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) July, 1790

2)

  • Deconstruction of the Church
  • Bien Nationeux

3)

  • Division among people (religion v revolution)
  • Louis’ Flight to Varennes

4)
- ‘Louis XVI could not safely coexist with the revolution’ (Adcock)

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Clerical Oath

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 27 November, 1790

2)

  • Deconstruction of Church
  • Civil Constitution of Clergy

3)
- Divided Clergy (Refractory v Non-Refractory)
- Vendee Rebellion

4)
- ‘offered a stark choice between religion and revolution’ (Aston)

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Flight to Varennes

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 21 June, 1791

2)

  • Deconstruction of the Church
  • Empowerment of New Regime

3)

  • Got rid of any of Louis’ authority (Louis Capet)
  • Precipitated war against Austria

4)

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Champs de Mars Massacre

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 17 July, 1791

2)

  • Flight to Varennes
  • Crowd gathered to demand removal of Louis

3)

  • Bailly/Lafayette discredited
  • Sans-culottes turn condemn a constitutional monarchy

4)
- ‘The split in the revolutionaries became wider than ever’ (Hibbert)

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Declaration of war on Austria/Prussia

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 20 April, 1792

2)
- Austria accused of harbouring French rebels

3)

  • Emigres/external enemies appear
  • Precipitates Terror

4)

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La Patrie en Danger

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 5 July, 1792

2)
- Declaration of war on Austria

3)

  • Fear/panic increases = precipitates Terror
  • Active/passive citizens unified

4)

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Storming of the Tuileries

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 10 August, 1792

2)
- Brunswick Manifesto (threatens vengeance if Louis is harmed)

3)

  • Sans-culottes unable to be controlled by Legislative Assembly
  • Monarchy is forcibly suspended
  • Precipitates Terror

4)
- 900 Swisse Guards killed

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September Massacres

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 3-7 September, 1792

2)

  • War with Austria
  • External enemies (emigres)

3)

  • Power/authority of the sans-culottes exemplified
  • Violence precipitates Terror

4)

  • ‘Violence was the motor of the revolution’ (Schama)
  • ‘Caused by fear and hysteria’ (Stewart)
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Louis Capet Execution

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 21 January, 1793

2)
- Flight to Varennes

3)
- Symbolic severance of monarchy from republic
- Precipitated war with Britain

4)
- ‘The King must die so that France may live’ (Robespierre)

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Declaration of war on Great Britain/Dutch Republic

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 1 February, 1793

2)

  • Louis’ execution
  • Tension between Britain and France

3)

  • Furthered financial/economic crisis
  • Radicalised fear of counter-revolution

4)

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Vendee Rebellion

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) March, 1793

2)

  • Persecution of Clergy
  • Radicalisation of sans-culottes/government

3)

  • Internal threats emerge
  • Radicalism grows with increased fear of counter-revolution
  • Precipitates Terror

4)

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Revolutionary Tribunal/Reps on Mission established

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) March, 1793

2)

  • Internal enemies (Vendee)
  • External enemies (Warring nations, Emigres)

3)

  • Legislation of Terror
  • Police/Courts implemented to execute counter-revolutionaries

4)

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Committee of Public Safety established

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) April, 1793

2)

  • Internal enemies (Vendee)
  • External enemies (Warring nations, Emigres)

3)
- New ruling Government
- Enabled the implementation of Terror

4)

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Establishment of Terror

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

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1) 5 September, 1793

2)
- Internal/External enemies

3)

  • Nation divided between loyal citizens and ‘traitors’
  • Legalised mass executions

4)

  • ‘Let terror be the order of the day’
  • 30,000-50,000 killed
  • ‘Violence was the motor of the revolution’ (Schama)
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Federalist Revolts

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) June, 1793

2)
- Purge of the Girondins

3)

  • Internal enemies expand
  • Radicalised Terror

4)

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Levee en masse

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 23 August, 1793

2)
- International War

3)

  • Conscription causes dissatisfaction
  • More people emigrate/defect

4)
- Conscription of 300,000 men

18
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Law of Suspects

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 17 September, 1793

2)
- Establishment of Terror

3)

  • Anybody considered an ‘enemy of the revolution’ could be detained
  • Emigres + Nobles targeted

4)
- 1,376 death sentences

19
Q

General Maximum

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 29 September, 1793

2)

  • Inflation
  • Food shortages

3)

  • Government seen as responding to sans-culottes pressures
  • Led to hoarding and black market trading

4)

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Q

Law of Frimaire

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 4 December, 1793

2)
- Implementation of Terror

3)

  • Power centralised to Committee of Public Safety
  • Consolidated dictatorship of new regime

4)

21
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Law of 22 Prairial

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) June, 1794

2)
- Implementation of Terror

3)

  • Ability for suspects to defend themselves limited
  • Compromised judicial fairness

4)

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Q

12 Germinal revolt

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 1 April, 1795

2)

  • Famine
  • Political inequalities
  • Thermidorian Convention abandon economic models of Revolutionary government

3)
- Precipitated Constitution of 1795

4)
- ‘Bread and constitution of 1793’

23
Q

1 Prairial revolt

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 20 May, 1795

2)
- Lack of political/economic reform by Thermidorian government

3)

  • Final popular movement
  • Precipitated Constitution of 1795

4)

24
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Fete de la Federation

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 14 July, 1790

2)
- Celebration of Storming of the Bastille

3)

  • Unity between people and monarchy
  • Lafayette held in high esteem

4)

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Constitution of 1791

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) September 1791

2)

  • Tennis Court Oath
  • DOTROMAC

3)

  • Empowerment of ‘active citizens’
  • Suffrage granted
  • Constitutional Monarchy established
  • Popular Sovereignty granted

4)
- Louis as ‘King of the French’

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Purge of Girondins

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 2 June 1793

2)

  • Threat of external war
  • Girondins in political conflict with Jacobins

3)

  • Political repression
  • Jacobins rule without political opposition

4)
- 29 Girondin deputies executed

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De-Christianisation

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 1793-1794

2)

  • Implementation of Terror
  • Persecution of Clergy

3)

  • Cult of Supreme Being established
  • Clergy imprisoned/massacred
  • Intensified internal rebellions

4)

28
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Execution of Robespierre

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) 28 July 1794

2)

  • Cult of Supreme Being
  • Threats to purge members of the Committee of Public Safety

3)

  • Signalled the end to Terror
  • Sparked Thermidorian reaction

4)

29
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Thermidorian Reaction

1) Date
2) Causes
3) Effects
4) Stats/Quotes

A

1) July 1794-1795

2)

  • Execution of Robespierre
  • End of Terror

3)

  • Terror policies withdrawn
  • Sans-culottes militants arrested
  • Constitution of 1795

4)
- 4,000 sans-culottes militants arrested

VCE History: Revolutions (8 decks)

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