The French Revolution And Napoleon Flashcards
The first estate
The clergy, voluntary tax every 5 years
The Estates General
Called because of the refusal of the assembly of notables tovsupport louis XVI’s tax reform
The Second estate
The nobility
The third estate
The peasants and bourgeoise, paid the majority of the taxes
The tennis court oath
Third estate met and drew up a plan, they vowed to meet until the consitution was complete, semi beginning of the French Revolution
The storming of the bastille
The rioters stormed the bastille for the firearms, act against royal depotism, also a starting point in the French revolution
The declaration of thr rights of man and the citizen
All men were born with natural rights, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression,
The rights of women
Wmen gained increased rights to property and divorce, did not gain the right to vote or to hold political office
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vndication of the rights of women
Women are not naturally inferior to man
Civil constitution of the clergy
Confiscated lands of the church, bishops/priests would have to be elected by the people
The legislative assembly
The conservatives made up the Right, moderates were in the center, the radicals made up the Left
The Jacobins
Wanted to overthrow the monarchy and form a republic, Maximillien Robespierre
The Girondists
Wanted to involve France in a war that would discredit the monarchy
The Declaration of Pilnitz
By Austria and Prussia, the restoration of absolutionism in France was of common interest to all the sovereigns of Europe
The second french revolution
The sans-culottes took control of Paris, Septembre massacres, sans-culottes executed over 1000 officials/importsnt people in France
