French Revolution Flashcards
What country was the center of the enlightenment
France
Name and de strive the 3 estates
1 estate : church officials 1%
2nd: nobility 2%
3rd estate: everyone else 97%
Third estate into three groups
Burgoise - merchants
Why were 1st and 2nd opposed to the ideas of the enlightenment
They didn’t want to change
Four factors
1- inequalities of society
2-enlightenment ideas of change
3- American revolution
4- corruptions of the French kings
Two reasons why the queen was unpopular
She spent a lot of money
She was foreign
“Madame deficit”
2 causes of France financial crisis in 1789
- Constant wars for the past 100 years
2. Extravagant spending of the monarchy
What solution was proposed to the kind by his advisors
Tax the first 2 estates
What was estates general
Representatives assembly of 3 estates. Kings were absolute monarchy
What was the tennis court oath
To not leave until they wrote a constitution
French Revolution began with the storming of…
Bastille
Describe the great fear
Rumors that the king hired foreigners to punish to punish the 3rd estate. Peasants burned & destroyed nobles
What document patterned after American declaration
Declaration of the rights of monarchy and citizens
Three words became the slogan of the French Revolution
Liberty , equality, fraternity
Describe the difference between absolute and constitutional monarchy
Absolute - no rights
Constitutional- rights for people
Three general groups that made yo the legislative assembly
Royalist- absolute monarchy
Girondists- constitutional monarchy
Jacobins- republic
Why did Austria and Prussia declare war on France 1792
Feared the revolutionary ideas would spread to their country
What was the turning point of the French Revolution
Kings and queen try to leave the country
Who were jacobins and leader
Radicals.
Maximilian Robespierre
Ultimate fate of king and queen
They were executed by the “madam la guillotine”
What form of execution
Gillotine
During the period known as..,.. thousands of French were executed
Reign of terror
What were two goals of this period during the revolution
- An attempt to purge the country
2. An attempt to stamp out religion
What happened to French churches
All closed , power , wealth, and land were taken away
How did napoleon come to power in France
He overthrows government with a coup
Why was the dictorial Napoleon beloved by most of French ppl
Order, stability and economic success
Why were Napoleons armies welcomed as liberators
Because they thought they would overthrow their kings. Because he became worse of a dictator
What message was Napoleon giving the Pope
I’m more powerful than you
What event caused Napoleon to give up his western empire dream
Successful slave uprising
Why did Napoleon sell the Louisiana purchase to USA
It needed money for wars in Europe
