The Consitutional Monarchy

Question 1

When was guillotine introduced

Answer 1

March 1792

Question 2

When did the assembly abolish tithe and pluralism and end the privileges of the church

Answer 2

August 1789

Question 3

When was the civil constitution of the clergy

Answer 3

July 1790

Question 4

When did the church have to take the oath of loyalty

Answer 4

November 1790

Question 5

When was the constitution officially introduced

Answer 5

September 1791

Question 6

When was Cordeliers club founded

Answer 6

April 1790

Question 7

When did rural revolution begin and last to ?

Answer 7

Began in 1790 And ended in 1792

Question 8

Flight to Varennes?

Answer 8

June 1791

Question 9

What happened on 24 June after the flight?

Answer 9

30,000 people marched to the National Assembly in support of petition from the Cordeliers club calling for kings dismissal

Question 10

What happened on 16 July 1791

Answer 10

Assembly voted to suspend the king until the constitution was completed

Question 11

When was the champ de Mars

Answer 11

17 July 1791

Question 12

When was legislative assembly created

Answer 12

1 October 1791

Question 13

What did the assembly do at end of 1791?

Answer 13

Two laws passed - one says non-jurors were suspects and another that all émigrés who did not return to France by jan 1792 would forefeit property and be declared traitors

Question 14

What did the king do in relation to the assemblies laws in late 1791?

Answer 14

He vetoed these laws

Question 15

Church lands were nationalised biens nationaux

Answer 15

November 1789

Question 16

Gabelle was abolished when?

Answer 16

March 1790

Question 17

When did political clubs first come around ?

Answer 17

After the meeting off estates general on May 1789

Question 18

What happened at champ de Mars ?

Answer 18

50,000 people went to sign a republican petition -poorer sections of society
Commune under pressure form NA declared martial law and national guard was sent which fired on an unarmed crowd killing people

Question 19

How did the assembly reform the taxation system?

Answer 19

Indirect taxes were abolished
Old direct taxes also
And the system of tax farming

Question 20

What did the new financial system of the assembly entail ?

Answer 20

Land tax with no exemptions
A tax on movable goods paid by active citizens
Tax on commercial profits
Citizens paid according to their ability to do so

Question 21

Benefits of new financial system?

Answer 21

Burden of tax fell mainly to Producers rather than consumers so benefitted the poor

Fairer as all property and income was taxes on same basis no privileges

Question 22

Disadvantage of new financial system ?

Answer 22

System would have worked of there were enough officials to collect the taxes but the assembly refused to pay for them

Question 23

When did the assembly introduce free trade in grain?

Answer 23

August 1789

Question 24

When were internal tariffs abolished?

Answer 24

October 1790
This meant a national market was crated goods could move freely from one part to another without paying internal custom duties

Question 25

What legal reforms were there?

Answer 25

All judges elected by active citizens and only those who had been lawyers for five years were eligible
Penal code more humane
Capital crimes reduced

Question 26

What were the main terms of the civil constitution of the clergy ?

Answer 26

Dioceses to coincide with departments meaning number of bishoprics reduced and there were fewer bishops in general
Priests and bishops elected
Priests paid by state
Titles and offices not included in constitution were abolished

Question 27

What was the reaction to the civil constitution of the clergy?

Answer 27

Most opposed idea of elections but willing to find a way to accept and avoid split
Clergy demanded reforms be submitted to national syod but this was not allowed

Question 28

What is a national syod?

Answer 28

Assembly of representatives for whole church

Question 29

Why did the church Havel take an oath of loyalty ?

Answer 29

As the clergy awaited the popes verdict who delayed so the assembly decreed they just take an oath which split the clergy forming two churches

Question 30

Those who did not take the oath were known as ?

Answer 30

Non juring or refractory priests

Question 31

What were the terms of the constitution of 1791?

Answer 31

Power passed from constituent assembly to legislative

Suspensive veto of the king

Question 32

What powers did the king have or not have under the new constitution ?

Answer 32

Had right to appoint ministers and military commanders
Suspensive veto not on finances and up to four years only
He was dependent on assembly for foreign policy
Assembly passed laws which the king had to obey

Question 33

Who were members of the jacobins and why?

Answer 33

High entrance fee meant wealthier of society

Question 34

What was jacobin ideology ?

Answer 34

Based on combination of enlightenment and revolutionary practice
Came to reject monarchy
By 1792 favoured centralisation

Question 35

What did the cordeliers favour ?

Answer 35

No membership fee more radical
Objected oassive and active citizens system
Wanted direct democracy whet voters choose deputies and right of insurrection

Question 36

Why the flight ?

Answer 36

King regretted acceptance of civil constitution of clergy

Question 37

Why was the flight significant ?

Answer 37

He had drawn up proclamation on true feelings of Rev and renounced it

Support for Republic grew