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Unit 8 Flashcards

1
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Enlightenment’s effect on French Revolution

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-main ideology
-criticized absolutism
-advocated for popular sovereignty
-Natural Rights
-classical liberalism

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American Revolution’s effect of French Revolution

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-Enlightened actions
-France involved
-Rivals w/ England
-French-Indian War

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Ancien Regime

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Period before French Revolution (1789)

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4
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Estates system

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Class structure

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First Esate

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-clergy
-exempt from taxes (taille)

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Second Estate

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-nobility
-exempt from taxes
-feudal privileges
-corvee

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Third Estate

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-everyone else
-Bourgeoisie
-wealthy, Enlightened, and educated
-could become noblesse de robe
-Artisans
-urban workers
-Peasants
-rural agriculture workers

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8
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Parlement

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-French judicial courts
-made of nobles

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Louis XV

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-had Rene de Maupeou check parlements
-Madame Pompadour -> desacralization of king

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Rene de Maupeou

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-Chancellor under Louis XV
-parlements checked monarchy -> got rid of them

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Madame de Pompadour

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-mistress of Louis XV
-believed to be making political decisions -> desacralization

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Louis XVI

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-dismissed Maupeou
-mistake because no one checking parlements
-Married Marie Antoinette

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Marie Antoinette

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-married Louis XVI
-not well liked
-hated peasants
-had a luxury lifestyle that peasants paid for

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14
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Financial issues

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-debt from wars
-Louis XIV’s war
-American Revolution
-can’t pay due to inadequate tax base

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Charles de Calonne

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-Financial advisors of Louis XIV
-calls upon Assembly of Notables
-nobles say that he needs to call upon Estates General

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16
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Cashiers de Doléances

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-king asked different estates to give their grievances

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17
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Voting issues

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-every estate got 1 vote
-Third Estate wanted to have more delegates and vote by head

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Abbé Sieyès

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-“What is the Third Estate?”
-1st Estate

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19
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“What is the Third Estate?”

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-Abbé Sieyès
-advocated for third estate being more representated
-Third Estate does everything and 1st and 2nd do nothing

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Estates General of May 1789

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-voting issue not solved
-creation of National Assembly

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National Assembly

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-Enlightened 1 and 2 and all of 3 estate
-formed in response to the voting issue of the Estates General 1789
-legal equality
-created a constitution
-no more estates

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22
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Intellectuals joining French Revolution

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-Enlightened morals

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3rd estate in French Revolution

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Realistic and practical concerns

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24
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Louis XVI’s response to National Assembly

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Mercenaries meeting in Paris to go to Versailles

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25
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Storming of the Bastille

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-Parisians went to gather arms to fight the king
-July 14th 1789

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26
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The Great Fear

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-Summer of 1789
-Peasants hear that nobles will fight them
-Peasants destroyed all feudal objects
-Nobles flee to get support

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27
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August 4th Decrees

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-National Assembly abolishes feudalism
-legal equality

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28
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

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-blueprint for constitution
-National Assembly

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29
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The Women’s March on Versailles

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-women want to feed their children
-monarchs escorted to Tuileries

30
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New women’s rights

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-divorce
-property
-child support

31
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Olympe de Gouge

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The Declaration of the Rights of Women

32
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The Declaration of the Rights of Women

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-Olympe de Gouge
-feminist rewrite of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

33
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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-monarchs used to use Church as extension of power
-created national church
-peasants bought sold church property w/ assignats
-clergy men elected
-loyal to state, not Pope
-secularizing France
-benefitted Bourgeoisie
-limited power of 1 + 2 estate
-made 3rd estate mad -> alienation

34
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Assignats

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Paper currency

35
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Constitution of September 1791

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-limited powers of the king
-absolute monarchy -> constitutional monarchy
-Louis XVI have to accept because of Flight to Varennes

36
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Flight to Varennes

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-Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette flee France
-get help from Austria
-Louis XVI tried for treason

37
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Legislative Assemby

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-replaces National Assembly when Constitution of September 1791 is issued
-National Assembly could not join
-more participatory
-more classes = more division
-property qualification still needed to vote

38
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Edmund Burke

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-Reflections on the Revolution in France
-Conservative

39
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

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-Edmund Burke
-not in favor of change
-takes time to make change
-power trying to get rid of will just come back
-predicting dictatorship

40
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Thomas Paine

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Rights of Man

41
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Rights of Man

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-Thomas Paine
-not governing based on the past
-government exists to serve the current people

42
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Declaration of Pillnitz

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-issued by Austria and Prussia
-feared popular revolution spreading
-willing to go to war with France to restore monarchy
-France agrees to go to war
-war unites country against common enemy
-nationalism
-spread revolutionary ideals
-kings/royalists
-want to restore power

43
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Rise of Factions in Legislative Assembly

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More classes = different views and goals

44
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Centrists

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-moderates
-no extreme views
-swing depending on issue

45
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Conservatives

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-constitutional monarchy

46
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Ultra-conservatives

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-ancien regime
-absolute monarchy (royalists)
-feudal privileges
-traditional values
-Catholic Church
-nobles, clergy, and peasants

47
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Classical Liberals

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-Enlightened
-representative legislative body
-everyone can vote besides peasants
- not enlightened
-equal opportunity
-legal equality
-economic liberalism
-individuals make decisions about trade without involvement of government
-Bourgeoise

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Radicals

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-republic
-universal male sufferage
-everyone pays taxes
-separation of church and state
-sans-culottes

49
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Sans-culottes

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-Working class of city
-consigned with economic crises and everyday needs

50
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Jean Paul Marat

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-radical leader
-wrote in revolutionary newspaper

51
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The Jacobin

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Political club

52
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Brunswick Manifesto

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Prussia threatening to raze Paris if harm went to royal family

53
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Fall of French Monarchy

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-mob attacked Tuileries
-royal family went to Legislative Assembly
-fall of monarchy and Legislative Assembly

54
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Paris Commune

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Temporary government that took over Legislative Assembly

55
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Georges Danton

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-radical speaker
-face of the Committee of Public Safety

56
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The September Massacres (1792)

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-rumors that royalist prisoners were plotting with allied invaders
-mob stormed and killed prisoners

57
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The National Convention

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-voted by universal male sufferage
-first Republic of France
-abolished the monarchy
-Many were Jacobins

58
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Girondists

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-Conservative Jacobins
-based in provinces

59
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The Mountain

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-liberal Jacobins
-led by Robespierre and Danton
-extremists
-supported by sans-culottes

60
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The Plains

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-moderate Jacobins

61
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The First Coalition

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Everyone vs. France

62
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The Levee en Masse

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-national draft of France
-Counterrevolutionary reactions
-Vendee
-farmers don’t want to be drafter
-Lions and Marseilles
-didn’t want Paris calling everything

63
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Committee of Public Safety

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-national emergency
-absolute power to government
-led by Robespierre

64
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Robespierre

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-create a republic of virtue
-equality
-laws are what the people want
-hypocritical because terror -> virtue
-patriotism

65
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Culture of Enlightened Rationalims

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-“citoyen”
-Law of Maximum
-command economy
-metric system
-dechristianization
-religion = ancien regime
-Cult of the Supreme Being

66
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Law of Maximum

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Max cost on essentials

67
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France’s war effort

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-total war
-all work for army
-nationalizing businesses
-nationalism

68
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The Reign of Terror

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-1793-1794
-killed anyone deemed an enemy of the nation

69
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Jacques-Louis David

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-Painted Death of Marat

70
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The Thermidorian Reaction

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-1794
-end of Reign of Terror
-Convention arrests Robespierre

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