French Revolution Flashcards
AP European History with Rodriguez at Encinal High School
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The Old Regime
* Class structure left over from Middle Ages in France
* Determined political and social order
* Determined political and social order
Name the Three Estates
1. First Estate: Clergy
2. Second Estate: Nobility
3. Third Estate: Peasants, Middle class, Urban workers
2. Second Estate: Nobility
3. Third Estate: Peasants, Middle class, Urban workers
Said "apres moi, le deluge" (after me, disaster)
Louis XV
Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette to
avoid war with Austria.
She said "Let them eat cake!"
Marie Antoinette
The lettres de cachet
* Signed letters by the King warranting anyone's imprisonment or death
* An abuse of French Monarchy
*Eliminated in 1790
* An abuse of French Monarchy
*Eliminated in 1790
France was in debt because...
* Costs of the American Revolution
* Nobles and clergy not taxed
* Nobles and clergy not taxed
Finance Ministers of Louis XVI
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
Estates General called in Year
1614
Abbe Sieyes said
"What is the Third Estate? Everything.
What has it been until now? Nothing.
What does it ask? To become something."
What has it been until now? Nothing.
What does it ask? To become something."
4 Taxes on the Third Estate
Tithe - Paid to Church
Taille - Peasant produce
Corvee - Labor
Gabelle - Salt
Taille - Peasant produce
Corvee - Labor
Gabelle - Salt
Causes of the Revolution
* Social class inequality
* Enlightenment ideas
* Debts due to war and financial crisis
* Enlightenment ideas
* Debts due to war and financial crisis
The three stages of the French Revolution
- First or Moderate Stage (1789-1792)
- Second or Radical Stage (92-95)
- Reactionary Stage (95-99)
Cahiers de Doleances
List of grievances from Third Estate asking for equality of rights
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of Third Estate as National Assembly for new Constitution
Storming of the Bastille occurred on
July 14, 1789
Bastille was stormed because of...
- Increased bread prices
- The Great Fear
- need for Gunpowder
The Great Fear
Rumors that aristocracy was forming an army to counter the revolution at hand
March of the Women on Versailles
* Women and others storm to Versailles in search of bread
* They return Louis and his family to Paris
* They return Louis and his family to Paris
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
* Declaration of the National Assembly outlining man's natural rights
Escape to Varennes
Louis XVI's attempt to flee to Austria
Declaration of Pillnitz
Austria's declaration of restoring France from Revolution
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Clergy paid by government
- Clergy elected by citizens
- Separation from the papacy
- Convents & monasteries abolished
The new name for the National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Sans Culottes
- Political group representing lower class
- Associated with violence
Wars of Revolution
Legislative Assembly declares war against Austria
Brunswick Manifesto
Prussian Army's threat to Paris not to harm the king
Tuileries Palace stormed on...
August 10, 1792
France proclaimed to be Republic on...
September 21, 1792
First Coalition
Alliance between Austria, England, the Netherlands, Prussia, and Spain against France
Jacobins
Radical Urban
Girondins
Moderate provincial / supported by the peasants of rural areas
Maximilien Robespierre
- Leader of Jacobins
- Created the Committee of Public Safety
- Responsible for the Great Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Tribunal of revolutions, arresting and executing thousands
Responsible for the reign of terror
Responsible for the reign of terror
Enragés
- Radical working-class leaders of Paris
- Arrested the Girondist Members of the National Convention
Republic of Virtue
Proclamation of Committee of Public Safety to
- de-Christianize France
- Alienated Catholic community
Danton
A man who opposed the murders and killing of the Great Terror
Thermidorian Reaction
Return of moderate bourgeois reformers to power
The Directory
A council of 5 members established to run the government
Napoleon Bonparte
* General who put down riots in Paris
* Became commander of French Armies
* will one day become ruler of France
* Became commander of French Armies
* will one day become ruler of France
Jean Paul Marat
A revolutionary leader killed by Charlotte Corday, a royalist
Napoleon overthrew the Directory through a
coup d'état
Government replacing the Directory was the...
Consulate
- composed of three consuls, head being Napoleon
Concordat of 1801
* Papacy could nominate bishops
* Church property seized during Revolution remained
* Church property seized during Revolution remained
Code Napoleon of 1804
A uniform legal system of France, was modeled after by other states
Recruit and rewarded those in government through a...
merit system.
Relatives placed on the thrones of nations Napoleon conquered
Nepotism
Battle of Austerlitz
Destroying Austria and Russia - Holy Roman Emperor resigns ending the empire
Confederation of the Rhine (1806)
United German states of the Holy Roman Empire to form Germany
Continental System
Blockade on importation of goods from Britain
Congress of Vienna
(September 1814 - June 1815)
Major powers of Europe meet to restore social and political order to BEFORE the revolution
Major powers of Europe meet to restore social and political order to BEFORE the revolution
The Hundred Days
March 1, 1815 (Beginning)
Napoleon escapes from exile and takes over France
Loses the battle of Waterloo
Napoleon escapes from exile and takes over France
Loses the battle of Waterloo
The Concert of Europe (November 1815)
Alliance of England, Prussia, Russia, and Austria
* Used to maintain the work of the Congress of Vienna
* Ended war in Europe for 100 years
* Used to maintain the work of the Congress of Vienna
* Ended war in Europe for 100 years
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