French Revolution Flashcards by Will Zhang

Second estate

Nobles
Of the sword, limited middle class aristocracy with Segur Law 1781

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First Estate

Clergy, 1% pop’l

Collected Tithe: church tax

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Third estate

95% of Fr
Petty bourgeoisie
Sans-culottes

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Turgot

Finance minister of Louis XVI
Promoted physiocracy
Wants him to tax wealthy, got fired

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Cahiers de doleances

Demands for tax equality
Abolish feudalism
List for Meeting of Estates general

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National Assembly 1789

Actually the Third estate

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Tennis court Oath 1789

National Assembly won’t disband until eh have new constitution

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March to Bastille 1789

Parisians march

Defenders of armory are captured/killed

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Great Fear 1789

Peasants destroy noble properties

National Assembly disbands feudalism

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Declaration of rights of Man 1789

Legal equality

Religious freedom

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October days

Women’s march to Versailles to lower bread cost

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Civil constitution of the Clergy 1789-90

Requires all priests to swear oath to Revolution

Confiscates Cath church lands

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Constitution of 1791

Single legislative body with constitutional monarchy that can only delay legislation

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Jacobins Club

Growing in political power

Radical revolutionaries

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Declaration of Pillnitz 1791

Austrian emperor and Prussian King declare war in Fr to maintain order

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Girondins Party

Moderate republicans

Rival of Jacobins

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Brunswick Manifesto 1792

Aus and Prus threaten revolutionaries with violence

Georges Danton

Best spokesperson for Paris Commune

National Convention 1792

Radical
Elected to govern France
Constitution of 1791 abolished

French Republic (I) 1792

National convention abolishes Monarchy

Constitution of 1793

By Robespierre

Univ male suffrage

Committee of Public safety

Fr enters reign of terror

Aided Committee of General Security (revolutionary police)

Law of General Maximum

Abandon FM policies

Max price for key commodities

Abolition of slavery

Resulting from St. Dominique revolt in Haiti

De christianization

Cult of Supreme being: creating deistic civic religion

Constitution of 1795 (Year III)

Directory rules Fr for 4 years

Treaty of Campo Formio 1797

New Italian Republics

Coup d'état of Brumaire

Napoleon rids Directory, makes Consulate

Napoleonic Code

Ideals of merit and equality | Everyone is equal before the law

Bank of France

Mde by Napoleon Eliminate budget deficit Modernized tax system

Concordat of 1801

W/ Pope Pius VII Cath was majority relig of Fr Still had relig tolerance

Peace of Amiens 1802

Temporarily ended war between GB and Fr

Treaty of Tilsit 1807

Ended Napoleon's War of Third Coalition against Aus, Prus, Rus

Battle of Trafalgar 1805

Attack against GB failed | Defeated by Horatio Nelson

Continental System

Napoleon's attempt to embargo GB goods, failed

Battle of Waterloo 1815

Napoleon's final defeat

Napoleonic Foreign Policy

1. Set ideas of Enlightenment and Fr Rev to conquered lands | 2. Gain territ for Fr

Abolition of Feudalism

Win over peasants in foreign countries

New Diplomatic Systems

Created publics in Italy, Low Countries, Switz | Defeated Austria 1806

Confederation of The Rhine

Abolished HRE

Duchy of Warsaw

Napoleon's smaller version of Poland