Unit 5 Flashcards
Facts about he compte rendu
“Report to the king” by Jacques necker
Abolish aristocratic pension
Ignore American Revolution debt
Causes of the crisis leading up to the French Revolution
Not enough revenues for French monarch after 7yrs war
Financial reforms of Charles calonne
Make taille universal to everyone who owns land
Transform corveé from work to money tax
Grievances as according to cashiers de doleances
Tax exemptions, exclusive hunting, official currency, Versailles, regular meetings, mismanagement of church money
Creation of the National Assembly
Made up of reform minded 1st and 2nd estate, and most of 3rd estate
Jin 20, 1789 tennis court oath
Facts about he tennis court oath
June 20,1789
National Assembly not stop meeting until they draft a constitution
Reasons for riots in winter 1788 and spring 1789
Increased bread prices
Louis XVI dismissed Jacques necker
Mobilizing royal troops
Facts about and significance of the storming of the Bastille
July 14th 1709
Start of the French Revolution
The great fear
Rumor that the royals would take peasants food
Peasants react violently
Shows that people are tense and ready to act violently
Night of August 4th
Feudalism is abolished
No more anciem regime
“Declaration of the rights of man and citizen”
Aug 27,1789
Passed/written by the National Assembly
Give rights to those who understand govnt.
Land owners, etc
Jean Paul Marat
“The friend of the people” newspaper
Spread radical ideas and rumors
The October days
Women or working class (over 60,000) March to Versailles and demand the head of the queen and for royal family to come back to Paris with them
National constituent assembly and preferred form of govnt
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Characteristics and facts about the constitution of 1791
Established constitutional monarchy, laws originate with legislative body (war and peace, veto)
“Declaration of the rights of women”
By: olympe de gouge
Demanded that women should be treated as citizens
Addressed to Marie Antoinette
Examples of economic reforms during the Reconstruction of France
Assignats, metric system. Suppressed guilds, liberated grain trade
Émigrés
Aristocratic self-exiles
Leaving France, but wanting to come back when they have their rights back
Facts about the sans culottes and their goals and methods
Working class Wanted to end food shortages Civic equality Republicans Without the aristocratic tights
The September massacres
Storm prisons to find anti- revolutionaries
Over 1200 ppl
Mostly peasants ^ killed
Emphasized hysteria
The declaration of pillnitz
Leopold II and Fred. William II.
If king/royals of France are harmed, Austria and Prussia will attack France
The national convention and its actions
Declared France a republic
Countries at war with France by 1793
First coalition: France, Austria, Britain, Spain, sardeña, Netherlands, Prussia
Levée en masse
Secular ideal of nationhood and self sacrifice (soldiers)
The committee of public safety and its purpose
12 members
All staunch republican
1. To eliminate the conservative republicans (Girondists)
2. Ceiling on prices (food more affordable)
3. Levée en masse (first citizen based army)
Facts about the reign of terror
A radical period in which the convention sought to defend the French Republic
Robespierre in charge
Law of 22 prairial
Revolutionary tribunals don’t even take place, no trial, no process, no evidence
Executions double per day
Bands of Jesus and the white terror
Execution of former terrorists (similar to sept. Massacres)
Lyons, Toulon, marseilles (bands)
Results of coup of 18 Brumaire
Call Napoleon to overthrow the directory, constitution of year VIII
Abbé seiyes
Napoleon became first consul
The battle of abukir
1898- weaken France in Egypt
Horatio Nelson leads British
Ways in which Napoleon attempted to suppress foreign and domestic opposition
Foreign: Treaty of luneville (pulls Austria out of war), treaty of Amiens (truce with Great Britain)
Domestic: grants pardon to radical revolutionaries, equal opportunities, centralized administration, secret police, duke of enghein (bourbon executed), peace with church, concordat of 1801, napoleonic code
The concordat of 1801, facts, purpose, results
Required refractory clergy and jurying clergy to resign
New clergy paid by govnt
Facts about the napoleonic code
Civil code of 1804 Standardized all French law Feudalism still abolished Protected property rights Reaffirmed merit privilege No workers unions Male supremacy
Facts regarding Napoleon becoming the empower of France
1804
“The coronation of Napoleon” by Jacques Louis David.
The battle of trafalgar
1805
Horatio Nelson
British secure the sea
Prime minister of Britain during the French rev
William Pitt the younger
Treaty of Tilsit
Prussia loses 1/2 eastern territory (near Russia)
Prussia forced to be French ally
Czar Alexander the first= secret French ally
Facts about the continental system
Aka Milan decree
Forces countries on continent to not trade with England, ends up being more detrimental to the continent than to Britain, more resentment towards France, created smuggling