French Revolution Flashcards
Three estates
Clergy, nobles, others
Facts about clergy
Owned 10% of land, collected tithes, don’t pay taxes, ran schools, hospitals, and orphanages
Facts about nobles
Easy lives, live by tradition, given jobs in gov, army, court, and church, don’t pay taxes
What are the two levels in the third estate
Bourgeois, proletariat
Who was the bourgeoisie
5% of the people in France, middle class, bankers, manufactures, doctors, and lawyers
Who were the proletariats
90% of France, laborer so, wicked taxed.
What is deficit spending, and what does it cause
When the government spends more money than they have (from taxes), creates lots of debt
What did the bad harvest in 1780 lead to
Starvation of third estate, LET THEM EAT CAKE
Who was the estates general
A body of representatives from all of the estates, kind of like parliament, made list of problems
What were the problems with how voting went
One vote per estate which meant the third estate was always overpowered. Third estate wants it by head, not estate, which , meant that no one saw any movement
What was the tennis cort oath
The government that the third estate made for itself. They speak for France and call themselves the National Assembly. Because of this, Louis 16 sends troops into Paris
What are the four phases of the French Revolution
National Assembly, radical phase, directory, age of Napoleon
When was the National Assembly, and what was happening during the time
1789-1791. There was a massive famine
What was the great fear
When rumors were running wild, peasants target nobles and attack and steal things
National assemble acts
August 4, 1789. Nobles agreed to give up their privileges,
What is the declaration of the rights of man
The French version of the Declaration of Independence, all men are equal an free, gov is there to protect rights
Impact of people and National Assembly
King as prisoner and National Assembly move to Paris, third estate takes over church, makes religious peasants furious.
What was the ancien regime
refers to the societal, economic, and political structure of France before the French Revolution
When were the food riots, and why
Late 1780s and cause of the let them eat cake
Who was the first to call the estates general in 175 years
Louis 16
When was the storming of Bastille
July 15, 1789
How many people stormed the prison
5,000-6,000
Why did they. Go there
Actions of prisoners (trying to not pay taxes and get free food)
Actions of guards
When was the constitution mad e
1791
Limited monarchy
Elected legislative assembly
