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VOcab Flashcards

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Jaques Necker

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New finance minister who exposes the problems with French Finance (paid on aristocracy)

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Issue of French Debt

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  1. They borrowed a lot of money to finance the American Revolution
  2. Building and Maintenance of Versailles
  3. Funding (pensions) of aristocracy
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Assembly of Notables

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Group called by Jacques Necker who calls for the Estates general

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Estates General

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Called together to solve the financial crisis- Start taxing the Nobles
Not called since the 16th century
Estates:
1. Clergy
2. Nobility
3. Everyone ellse
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Cahiers de Doleances

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List of complaints from the third estate

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Tennis Court Oath (06-20-1789)

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Louis XVI locked out the 3rd estate so they went to the tennis courts Promise amongst members not to disband before they write a constitution

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National Assembly

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new name for the 3rd estate after making the tennis court oath.
A.K.A National Constituent Assembly

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Storming of the Bastille (07-14-1789)

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The lower class storming the Bastille (political prison) they stole arms and took the governor, killed him, and paraded his head on a stick. 
-the Bastille was a Symbol of Bourbon oppression
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Great Fear

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Great panic on the French countryside because they were worried that there were bandits on the countrysides stealing and burning farms

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Declaration of the Rights of Man

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The declaration of basic human rights of life liberty and property and others (speech religion)

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March on Versailles

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Working women of Paris skeptical of National Assembly and they march on Versailles because they want the king back and paris and want attention. Looking for Marie Antoinette

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Assignats

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Assignat was a type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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Says all French priests will be elected then paid by the French Revolutionary Government and if they dont take an oath they will go to jail

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Emigres

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any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789.

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Flight to Varennes (06-20-1791)

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Tries to flee then gets caught at Varennes and was captured

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Jacobins

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Radicals pushing for a French Republic

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Girondists/Mountain

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Girondists- Moderate

Mountain- Radical- Wants Republic and Louis XVI Dead

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Sans-Culottes

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Radical Left wingers- Working class

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September Massacres

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Fear of revolution from outside (Austrians and Prussians)

Any anti revolutionaries were dragged from their prison cells and killed by the working class

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National Convention

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Formerly National Assembly.

1792 was year 1 of the French Republic

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Reign of Terror (1793-94)

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Fear that the counter revolution will defeat the French Revolution. Rebellion in the Western part of France. Any suspicion of being a counter revolutionary will earn a sentence of beheading

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Committee of Public Safety

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Executive Power of the French Government

Run by Robespierre

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Republic of Virtue

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Declared by Robespierre
Tries to move away from being a Catholic country
Focus on enlightment and revolution

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DeChristianization

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Taking away catholicism, Changing the calendar (10 day week- forget sunday- orget catholicism), changing names of churches,

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Robespierre

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Head of the Committee of Public Safety

Keeps the reign of terror going

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Law of 22 Parial

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Robespierre saying anyone who speaks out against revolutionary will be sentenced to beheading without trial

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Thermidorian Reaction

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July 1794- Claim robespierre as a tyrant arrest him andd put him to death

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Directory

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Body that takes over after robespierre

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