Module 7 Flashcards
What was the ancien regime and the name of the three estates?
The ancien regime was the old system of France and was organized into the three estates of clergy, nobility, and pesants
Who was part of the first estate?
Catholic Church (spiritual) and education, hospitals, and social welfare.
Who was part of the second estate?
Had monopoly over certain positions in military and government, people were born into these titles.
Who was part of the third estate?
Poor, uneducated pesants overtime a growing middle class called the bourgeoisie had money but no power.
What were the long-term causes of the French Revolution?
Growing dissatisfaction with the ancien regime, illogical nature of French political system, new Enlightenment ideas.
What was the National Assembly during the French Revolution?
Were members mainly of the third estate who gathered at a tennis court and were determined to write a constitution and get rid of the estates.
What was the Fall of the Bastille?
Parisians stormed the Bastille to get weapons/ gunpowder after there was panic about what was going on with the King and National Assembly in Verasailles.
What was the Great Fear?
Starving radical peasants who roamed the countryside heard rumors about Bastille and went around destroying material items and dismantling the old system.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Got rid of old system that people were born into a specific status and is based on Enlightenment ideas and is similar to Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
What was the Flight to Varennes?
Once one of King Louis’s friends got murdered, he and the royal family tried to flee to the Netherlands, but they were caught and escorted back to Paris and held under guard.
Who were the Sans-Culottes?
Violent working class of revolutionaries who would spy and beat people up who didn’t support new revolution, the government supported Sans-Culottes.
___________ emerged as a leader of most powerful faction called __________.
Maximilien Robespierre, The Jacobsins
What was the Reign of Terror?
Robespierre and radicals took control of the government and try to erase old France. The new government was controlled by a 12-member Committee on Public Safety and outlawed Christianity, expanded the war, and had mass executions.
Who was The Directory?
They were a designed new government that executed the Committee on Public Safety (including Robespierre). They grappled with war, poverty, and hunger.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
Members of the National Assembly took an oath to never separate until a written Constitution had been established for France.
