French Revolution and Napoleon Flashcards
1
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Stage 1 Causes
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- Ancien Regime
- Status Quo
- Absolute Monarchy
- Recent Kings
- Gv’nt Financial Crisis
- The Bad Years
2
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Stage 1 Cause #1: The Ancien Regime
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- inequalities
- as the middle class increased, the 3rd class had less political power
- Peasants: had to no rights to property they lived on and paid taxes to government and church
3
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Stage 1 Cause #2: The Status Quo
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- existing state of affairs regarding social/political issues
- enlightenment denies the church’s power
- believed that status quo is wrong and should be changed
4
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Stage 1 Cause #3: The Absolute Monarchy
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- didn’t allow/want change
- would have lost power if there was change
5
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Stage 1 Cause #4: Recent Kings
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- Louis XV and XVI
- weak
- led ineffective, costly wars
6
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Stage 1 Cause #5: Gv’nt FInalncial Crisis
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- not enough $ from taxes
- in american revolution, couldnt get $ back for it
7
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Stage 1 Cause #6: The Bad Years
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- bad weather –> crop failure –> famine –> help demanded from people
- no $ to help with food
8
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Estates General
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- Advisory Group for king who had the power to change tax structure
- people from each of 3 estates to vote
- final vote: 2 to 1, no change of tax structure
9
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Third Estate
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- Abbe Sieyes: document called “What is the 3rd Estate?”
- it is everything
- 1st and 2nd are in way of improvement
- wanted to make changes and formed National Assembly
10
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Tennis Court Oath
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- King didn’t want Nat. Assembly to meet and make changes –> meet in indoor Tennis Court
- first act of defiance against the king
- swears that they are power of France
- people upset when oath is passed
11
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Bastille/Bastille Day
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- mob marches to prison, helped by king’s army, now on people’s side
- French Independence Day
- royal power weakened and fear
12
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August Decrees
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- peasants call for end to Ancien Regime
- how should France be ruled?
- writes Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
13
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Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
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- war needed, Women’s Bread Riot
- King forced to move from Versailles –> Paris, might use army to overthrow another country, has limited power
- Nat. Assembly –> Constituent Assembly, tries to write constitution with laws
- king tries to escape, recognized b/c of $, forced to sign constitution, constituent assembly –> constitutional monarchy
- legislative assembly makes laws, $ to gv’nt for debts
- confiscation of Cathlic land –> France politicallt split
14
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Stage 2-Foreign War
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- france vs. austria and prussia (revolutionaries vs. monarchy)
- revolutionaries: supportive of revolution, want to spread revolutionary ideas, want support of other revolutionaries in Prussia and Austria
- monarchies: want war, want support from their King’s Army so they can gain power and weaken revolutionaries
- division in France
15
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royalists
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support the monarchy/royals
