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French Revolution Flashcards

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Why is France in debt

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Because they funded the American Revolution and the King keeps spending all of the money on fun parties for himself

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Factors that Lead to the French Revolution

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  • their financial issues
  • 3rd estate having to pay all the tax
  • agricultural disasters messing up their farms = no food
  • 3rd estate getting only one vote out of 3 when they are majority of population
  • Age of Enlightenment: writings spreading revolutionary ideas
  • king keeps spending money on himself and wars
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Who’s stuck paying all the taxes

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The third estate has to pay all taxes while the first two estates (nobility and clergy) and the king are completely exempt

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Causes of the Revolution: the enlightenment period

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  • respecting other humans
  • humans can be trusted to make decisions
  • challenged family lines… More democratic views
  • more freedoms
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Causes of the revolution: population divided into 3 estates

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Clergy 1st
Nobility 2nd
Commoners, peasants, bourgeoisie 3rd

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What are the two types of nobility

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Nobility of the sword (tru nobility)

Nobility of the robe (bourgeoisie that bought their nobility)

Nobility of the sword feels superior to the robes and won’t talk to the robes

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Aristocracy definition

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Highest class of citizens

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Causes of the revolution: France was an absolute monarchy with a weak monarchs

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  • King Louis XVI preferred personal interests so he spent a lot of money on nothing
  • strongly influence by his wife: Marie Antoinette
  • not good at decisions
  • he was clueless and thought that the citizens of France loved him and believed that they all had a lot of food
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Who was the king during French Revolution

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King Louis XVI

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Who was King XVIs wife

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Marie Antoinette

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Who was King Louis XIV

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Sun King (70 years ruled)

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Who was King Louis XV

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he was really dumb, got STD’s went crazy

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Who was Louis XVI

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The King during the French Revolution his father was crazy and made him become a bad King because his father was dumb and got a bunch of STDS and went crazy

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Causes of the French Revolution: financial difficulties

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-week long parties: loss of money
-maintenance of the palace of Versailles (25% of budget)
-over ambitious wars (made them lose money)
-7 years war
-American Revolution
France lost territories except two small islands = loss of wealth/resources/agriculture
-need to raise taxes but only the 3rd estate is made to pay the taxes

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Why did France want to help with the American Revolution

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Because they lost the 7 years war and they hated Britain so they funded their troops to fight for American against Britain and then the troops who went to America learned their revolutionary ideas and came back to France wanting a change as well

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What’s tithe

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Another form of taxes

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Causes of the revolution: France sent troops and supplied aid to the American Revolution

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This introduced citizens of France to revolutionary ideas
Liberal freedoms
Take up arms against tyranny (someone abusing power can be removed)
A republic is superior to a monarchy
No taxation without representation

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Who the bourgeoise

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Middle class they were workers and educated … They got rich but had no political power they wanted the same rights as the upper classes

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25% of France’s budget went to

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Upkeep of palace of Versailles kept the Kings palace all nice

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What was not fair about the voting

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There was no representative assembly

0.5% = 1 vote
1.5% = 1 vote
98% = 1 vote
That makes 2% of the population have majority vote over the 98% of the popation

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Ever growing deficit

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Spending more than what’s coming in :.. didn’t get enough taxes to help

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When is the start of the French Revolution

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May 1789 … When the parliament comes together to deal with their financial issues

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National Assembly

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Formed by the 3rd estate

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The weird line rom left to right the political spectrum

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Radical - jacobins, cordeliers - feuillants- absolute monarchy - reactionary

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who Napoleon

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First emperor, he gained a lot of power and spread his empire then eventually got exiled then he came back for 100 days then he got exiled and died

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How did Napoleon spread nationalism

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Through education: lycées he brought equal education for all boys regardless of class
Him making France all pretty and making the street nice and making giant monuments
The napoleonic code all laws applied to all citizens equally including women
Tried to keep Britain from trade brought nationalism for a lil bit

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When was the National Assembly formed and how

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May 5th 1789
There was a meeting with the estates general and then they got mad and got locked out of the room and then made the tennis court oath and formed the National Assembly

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When is the reign of terror

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23 aug 1793 - 16 oct 1793

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3rd constitution of the revolution

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Best reflection of modern day democracy

Has the directory of 5, council of elders, council of 500

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The political spectrum

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The line that turns into a circle

The circle is like a monarch and then goes through democracy and then goes back to a monarch bc it’s an empire

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Who did Napoleon take out

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The 3 directors

They were gunna try and control him and then he knew what they were doing so he like beat them and then became emperor

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Reflection of the modern day democracy

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Best reflection of modern day democracy

Has the directory of 5, council of elders, council of 500

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Jacobins

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The most radical

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September 14 1789

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King accepts constitution

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Radical means

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Wanted the revolution

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Cordeliers

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Under Danton, Marat, Desmoulins

Radical

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Feuillants

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Moderate in the middle

Moderate monarchists separated from jacobins

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