Unit 5 Flashcards
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Don’t pay back Americans and cancel aristocratic pensions.
Causes of the crisis leading up to the French Revolution
Louis XV/XVI
Debt
Damon
American Revolution
Estates general reason for convening in 1789
To pass calonne’s taille
Charles Calonne’s financial reforms
Reduce gabelle
Transform correé
The taille
1st & 2nd estates attempts to limit 3rd estates voting
No proper votes
Uninformed
Grievances as apart if the cashiers de doleances
Taxing
Gov. Spending
Church corruption
Reg. meeting of estates general
National Assembly consisted of
3rd estate and liberal thinkers of the other estates
Tennis court oath
Oath to draft a constitution
Painted by Jacques David
Reason for riots in 1788-1789
Necker dismissal
Mobilization of royal troops in Paris
Storming of the Bastille
Started official revolution
In need of gun powder
Killed military officials
The great fear
A movement in which the peasants attended to take back food and land from the nobels.
Night of Aug. 4th
National Assembly renounced nobels/aristocrats feudal rights
Declaration of rights of man and citizen
A drafted constitution (excluded women)
Jean Paul Marat
“L’ami du peuple” - friend of the people.
Wrote a newspaper
Had a terrible skin ailment
October days
Feudalism abolished by the aristocracy
What kind of gov. did the National Assembly want
Constitutional monarchy
Constitution of 1791
A constitutional monarchy;
Lead power - legislative assembly
Only active citizens could vote
Declaration of the rights of woman
Demanded that woman be viewed as citizens and equality in marriage
Economic reforms
Metric system
Liberated trade and suppressed guilds
Civil constitution of clergy
Placed church under state control - made clergy take an oath (juring or refractory)
Émigrés
Self-exiles
Jacobins
Radical Republican Party that replaced the girandins
Sans-Culottes
Wore full trousers to separate themselves from the aristocracy
September Massacres
16k + killed in a matter of days
Declaration of pillnitz
Claims that if the royal family is hurt Russia and Austria will retaliate
National Convention
Declares France a republic
“Citizen Capet”
Countries at war with France in 1793
Britain, Spain, holland, Austria and Prussia
Edmund Burke’s view of the rev.
Against it and saw it to ruin France
Partitions of Poland
Based off of French fears
New constitution
Equality
Refoms
Levee en masse
Passed by the committee of public safety - mass draft
How the French rep. achieved a “republic of virtue”
Terror
Committee of public safety
To execute order and authority in the national convention
Reign of terror
Period of death, chaos and paranoia
Levee en masse
Law of 22 prairial
Eliminated the right of a trial
Robespierre’s religion
Cult of the supreme being