History of the French Revolution midterm Flashcards
charles I
found ways around parliament
dissolved parliament 11 years (Scots revolt)
tried a new prayer book (scots revolt)
parliament reconveaned and got rid of charles
1st British civil war
1649
Charles I army vs Parliament army
parliament wins
rump parliament formed
Cromwell
dissolved rump parliament
became a military leader over everything
charles II
established royal prerogative
James II
attempted to end catholic discrimination with the royal prerogative
fired lots of judges
2nd British civil war
1688
William III of Orange is invited to invade England and take power from James II
End result of British revolutions
1689 Parliament dissolves the royal prerogative and establishes a constitutional monarchy
Rosseau
Social contract stated: only legitimate ruler was the people themselves, people choose whether to enter social contract of governance, Government by consensus = despotism
Corsican revolution
pasquale paoli established first constitution based on enlightenment principles
Boswell wrote about him and made him popular in England
end of the 7 years war and impact on Britain
1763
britian has a huge land empire it needs to pay for
george grenville
attempted to institute the stamp act
pissed off journalists and lawyers
Townsend
Tea
smugglers couldn’t make money off tea
smugglers pissed
Lord north
boston port act of 1774
boston under martial law
quartering act and housing troops
put common people out of work
shays rebellion year and sentiment
1786
debtors getting their land taken
anti-revolutionary sentiment
need to fix government
whiskey rebellion
against taxes on whiskey
anti-revolutionary sentiment
need to fix government
vantium
1/20th income tax for everyone
rejected by parliament
letres de cachet and who used them
king louis XV
emprison anyone for any or no reason
used to push through the vantium and suspend parliament
King Louis XVI
rolled back all of king Louis XV reforms
no more letres de cachet
bread crisis and year
1788
peasants were literally starving to death
items on the cahiers de doleances
corvet: people had to build new roads for free
church tithes: people had to pay the church
leftovers from serfdom
When is the national assembly formed
June 17th 1789
When is the tennis court oath formed
June 20th 1789
when does the national assembly and the king meet under the new constitution
June 27 1789
When was Bastille Day and why did it happen
July 14th 1789
rumors spread members of the national assembly had been locked up
