Deck 1 Flashcards
What was the enlightenment?
Began in 1760
Age of reason
Led to French Revolution
What was the Goal of the Age of Enlightenment?
Reform/change long held ideas of society/traditions
The five radical ideas
- Reason
- Skepticism
- Republicanism
- Individual liberty
- Religious toleration
Famous radical thinkers
-John Locke
-Adam Smith
-Immanuel Kant
What does revolution mean?
A sudden change
Factors that brought about the French Revolution
- Divine right of kings to rule
- Inequalities in society
- Enlightenment ideas of change
- American revolution
- Corruption of the French monarchs
Ancient/old regime
Made up of three social classes
1st estate- made from Roman Catholic clergy
1% of the population
2nd estate- nobility
2% of the population
3rd estate- common people
97% of the population
3 sub groups of the 3rd estate
- brougeoisia - merchants, doctors, lawyers
- Artisans - skilled in trade- live in city’s
- Peasant farmers - common laborers
King and queen
Louie XVI
Marie Antoinette - loved to spend money, and was a foreigner
- was called madame deficit
French debt
- Constant wars/American revolution
- Extravagant spending of the monarchy on palaces and parties
-example, palace of Versailles
Assembly
Third estate demanded:
demanded changes
-wanted more voting power
And they were locked out of the hall
Third estate then left to meet inside a tennis court
What did the third estate renamed themselves to?
National Assembly
Tennis court oath
An oath sworn on a tennis court that they wouldn’t leave until they finished writing a constitution
Storming of Bastille
-Paris
Major cause - food shortage
King orders troops to put down the protest
-people attacked the prison
-the prison was a symbol of royal power
What sweeps the the French country side?
The great fear
Started from French Revolution in July 14, 1789
National Assembly writes two documents
- Constitution
2.declaration of the right of man and citizens
3 main goals of the National Assembly
- Liberty
- Equality
- Ferternenty (brotherhood)
Where do the king and queen flee to
Palace of Versailles
- calls out troops to protect them
Women’s march cam after them
Women’s march
7000 women march to Versailles
Demanded
1. Bread
2. The king/ queen returns to Paris
The king then agrees and is put under house arrest
New government- 1791
Established a constitutional monarchy
