Agenda 11/16/12

Warm-up on American Revolution Review Homework on American Revolution Role Play – Estates General Notes on French Revolution Homework- Reading Guide French

Revolution

Age of Revolution

French Revolution

Background/Causes

Economic Problems

1. Debt – French and Indian War &

Assisting the colonists during the

American Revolution huge debt

2. Excesses of the monarchy

Versailles, etc…

3. Bad Harvests less food and high

prices for food- French Report

Background/Causes

Estates General

First EstateDoes not pay taxes

Clergy.5% of populationOwns 10% of land

Second EstateDoes not pay taxes

Nobles1.5% of populationOwns 20% of land

Third EstatePay taxes

Bourgeoisie (middle class)&

Peasants98% of populationOwns 70% of land

Background/Causes

Estates General – each estate had one vote 1st and 2nd Estates always voted together (common interests – like not paying taxes)

Events – Moderate Phase (1789-1791)

Estates General

1. Has not met in 175 years French kings

feared it would take away their power

2. Louis XVI asks Estates General to meet

solve economic problems

3. Problem 1st and 2nd estates always

vote against 3rd estate

4. Solution 3rd estate forms National Assembly –

it represents the people of France

National Assembly

Liberty, Fraternity, & EqualityFrench Revolution

Events – Moderate Phase (1789-1791)

Tennis Court Oath

1. 3rd Estate is locked out of its normal

meeting place – so it meets in a tennis

court

2. Oath – vowed not to separate until it

wrote a constitution for France

Events – Moderate Phase (1789-1791)

Storming of the Bastille (political prison)

1. Wanted weapons

2. Feared that royal troops might prevent

them from writing a constitution Constitution of 1791

1. Legislative Assembly – make laws and

collect taxes

2. Limited Monarchy (king + legislative assembly)

Storming of the Bastille

Events – Moderate Phase (1789-1791)

Constitution of 1791

3. Vote = men who own property and pay

taxes King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette try to

leave France – failed!!!

Events –Radical Phase(1792-1795)

Europe Went to War

1. France versus Prussia, Austria, and Great

Britain

2. Why France wanted to spread

revolution and prevent other countries

from stopping revolution National Convention

1. Radicals took control of the National Assembly

Events- Radical Phase (1792-1795)

National Convention

2. Abolished the monarchy France

became a republic

3. All men can vote and hold office Reign of Terror

1. Led by Robespierre

2. Goal wipe out every trace of France’s

past monarchy and nobility + anyone who

opposed the revolution

Events- Radical Phase(1792-1795)• Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed – guillotine

Events-The Directory (1795-1799)

1795 Constitution

1. 5 man directory (5 men governed France)

2. Vote = men who own property and pay

taxes

3. Corrupt and ineffective