Ch. 19 The French Revolution

Question 0

The Marquise de Lafayette

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French aristocrat and military officer who fought

Question 1

The Bastille

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Fortress and Paris state prison

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Bourgeoisie

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Wealthy stratum

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Abbe Sieyes

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Roman Catholic clergy

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The Estates General

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First state clergy
Second state nobility
Third state commoners peasants

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The tennis court oath

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was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch, a politician who would not execute decisions not decided by the king. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court located in the Saint-Louis district of the city of Versailles, near the Palace of Versailles.

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The declaration of the rights of man and citizen

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), passed by France’s National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights.[1] as universal. The Declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson, working with General Lafayette, who introduced it.[2] Influenced also by the doctrine of “natural right”, the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by law

Question 7

The declaration of the rights of woman

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The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written in 1791 by French activist and playwright Olympe de Gouges. The Declaration is based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, seeking to expose the failure of the French Revolution which had been devoted to sex equality.

Question 8

The Jacobins

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The most prominent political clubs of the French Revolution were the Jacobin Clubs that sprung up throughout Paris and the provinces in August of 1789. By 1791, there were 900 Jacobin clubs in France associated with the main club in Paris. According to Spielvogel, “Members were usually the elite of their local societies, but they also included artisans and tradesmen” (688).

Question 9

Declaration of pillnitz

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Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden (Saxony) by the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Frederick William II of Prussia. It declared the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and of Prussia for King Louis XVI of France against the French Revolution.

Question 10

Sans clothes

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Peasants didn’t want to wear pants

Question 11

Jack Neckar

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Question 12

The directory

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The Directory (French: Directoire) was the government of France during the penultimate stage of the French Revolution. The five directors exercised power, only one of whom, Lazare Carnot, has a reputation for leadership or political sagacity. It operated following the National Convention and preceding the Consulate. It lasted 2 November 1795 until 10 November 1799, a period commonly known as the “Directory era.” It was overthrown by Napoleon.

Question 13

The civil Constitution of the clergy

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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: “Constitution civile du clergé”) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.

Question 14

George’s Danton

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Georges Jacques Danton (French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton’s role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as “the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic”.[2] A moderating influence on the Jacobins, he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution.

Question 15

The Girondin

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Question 16

Maximilian Robespierre

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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (IPA: [ma.ksi.mi.ljɛ̃ fʁɑ̃.swa ma.ʁi i.zi.dɔʁ də ʁɔ.bɛs.pjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.

Opposed death penalty

Question 17

Jean Paul merit

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Jean-Paul Marat was a physician, political theorist and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution. Wikipedia

Question 18

The guillotine

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Killing thing proposed new way of living

Question 19

The rain of terror

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The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794),[1] also known as The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of “enemies of the revolution”. The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris),[2] and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.[3]

Question 20

Temple of reason

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The Temple of Reason (French: Temple de la Raison) was, during the French Revolution, a temple for a new belief system created to replace Christianity: the Cult of Reason, which were based on the ideals of atheism and humanism. This “religion” was supposed to be universal and to spread the ideas of the revolution, summarized in its “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” motto, which was also inscribed on the Temples.

Question 21

Toussant L’Ouverture

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Black leader
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also Toussaint L’Ouverture, Toussaint-Louverture, Toussaint Bréda, nicknamed The Black Napoleon, was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. Wikipedia

Question 22

The Thermidorian reaction

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The Thermidorian Reaction was a revolt within the French Revolution against the leadership of the Jacobin Club over the Committee of Public Safety. It was triggered by a vote of the National Convention to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, and several other leading members of the revolutionary government. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution.

Question 23

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoléon Bonaparte (French pronunciation: ​[napɔleˈɔ̃ bɔnaˈpaʁt], born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was one of the world’s most famous soldiers and statesmen, leading France to great victories over numerous European enemies. Despite modest origins he became Emperor and restructured much of European diplomacy, politics and law, until he was forced to abdicate in 1814. His 100-day comeback in 1815 failed at the Battle of Waterloo, and he died in exile on a remote island, remembered as a great hero by many Frenchmen and as a great villain by British and other enemies.

Question 24

Napoleon Civil Code

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Respected the rights and equality of people

Question 25

Austerlitz

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The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon’s greatest victories, where the French Empire effectively crushed the Third Coalition. Wikipedia

Question 26

Trafalgar

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Question 27

Waterloo

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The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.

Question 28

The grand Army

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The Grande Armée (French pronunciation: ​[ɡʀɑ̃d aʀme]) (French for ″Great Army″ or ″Big Army″) entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain. It never achieved that goal. Napoleon decided to re-deploy it east in order to eliminate the threat of Austria and Russia, which were part of the Third Coalition assembled against France.

Question 29

Elba and St. Helena

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Elbow was where Napoleon was sent to exiled and St. Helena was where he died at 51

Question 30

Explain the difference conceptions of the nature of government and representation held by the Americas in the British

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The Americas had their own representative assemblies and the British wanted a single empire with Parliament supreme authority

Question 31

What did the United States get with the end of the Revolutionary war

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The appellations to the Mississippi River

Question 32

Why did so many European intellectuals wish to copy the American government

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It proves that the liberal political ideas of the enlightenment were not rapid utterances of intellectuals

Question 33

What did England get with the end of the Revolutionary war

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Little land arms and money

Question 34

First estate

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Clarity church owns 10% of the land corgi were exempt from taxes

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Second estate

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Nobility

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What percentage of French society was in the first two states how much of the land of France was owned by these two states

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55%

40% of land owned

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Third estate

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Commoners of society

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What were the different parts of the third estate

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Divided in occupation level of education and wealth

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Who were the bourgeoise

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Middle-class included merchants industrialist bankers who controlled the resources of trades

Question 40

Explain the financial crisis plaguing friends by 1789

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Government finances collapse they used up half of their spending

Question 41

What was the cashiers the Doleancaz

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Statements of local grievances which were drafted throughout France it would abolish the fiscal privileges of the church inability

Question 42

What were the Jacobin clubs

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Gathering of radical deputies

Question 43

Declaration of pillnitz

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Austria and Prussia out which invited European monarchs to take well-being of France

Question 44

What was the Paris commune

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Group of Sam’s clubs they were working people

Question 45

Girondin and mountain

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Girondin- disposed to keep the team alive as a

Mountain interest of pairs

Question 46

Reign of terror

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Actions taken in the effort to deChristianie France