Chapter 9 Flashcards
1
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causes of the french revolution
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- peasants were mad (income, taxes)
- poor harvests
- bankrupt of government (debts )
- aristocratic resistance against taxes
- censorship
- unpopularity of church hierarchy and privileges
- taxes to church
- noble privileges
2
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Louis XVI
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- married to Marie Antoinette
- french revolution
3
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Necker
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financial official during french revolution
4
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Edmund burke
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English critic
- state is partnership
- no reform
- sudden change = no okay, gradual change = okay
- during french revolution
- warned that mob rule would lead to anarchy and military dictatorship
5
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robspierre
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=Jacobin leader
6
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Pitt the younger
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British organizer of alliances against forces of revolution and napoleon
7
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the french revolution timeline
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- calling of estates general (solve bankruptcy)
- tennis court oath
- Bastille
- the great fear
- Austria and Prussia threaten to invade France
- legislative assembly declare war
- sans-culottes took control and pressure the legislative assembly into calling for anew national convention
- national convention declare republic and kill king
- giondrists outed Jacobins
- then there were threats from girodinsts and royalists and foreign threats
- reign of terror
8
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the great fear
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agarain revolt during french revolution
9
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emigres
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princes and nobles who fled France to raise foreign opposition
10
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national assembly / constituent assembly
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- limited monarchy
- metric system
- abolish internal taxes
- abolish guilds
11
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civil constituent of assembly
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- church nationalized
- church are employees of the state
- took lands
- took an loath
- church officials elected by the people
12
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Le chapelier law
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against organised labor
13
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assignats
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bonds issued by government
- later used as currency
- over issue led to high inflation
14
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Jacobin
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-racial revolutionizes
-no monarchies
-republic
-not lyattete
-king dead
-supported by sans-coulerte
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15
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girondins
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- more moderate than Jacobins
- advocates of war with Russia
- extend french revolutionary ideas
- king improsioned