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French Revolution

Workbook

Name: _____________________________ Per. # _____

Unit 2 French Revolution Test Date:________________

Unit Overview Score Workbook Score

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Unit 2 Partner Sheet

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Revolutions Unit Overview Key Terms

1. The Enlightenment

2. Social Contract

3. Rationalism

4. Natural Law

5. Absolute Monarchs

6. Dec. of the Rights of Man and Citizen

7. 1st, 2nd , and 3rd Estates

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8. Tennis Court Oath

9. The Bastille

10. The Terror

11. Guillotine

Key People

12. Marie Antoinette

13. Robespierre

14. . Jean Paul Marat

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Key Concepts

1. What were the major motivations behind the French Revolution?

2. What were the different social groups involved in the French Revolution? What did each

group hope to gain/maintain?

3. Describe the use of violence in the French Revolution. Was is successful, explain the positives

and negatives of the bloodshed.

4. Explain the issues that enlightenment thinkers had with hereditary and absolute monarchy.

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Religion Notes

Essential Question

History and Dates

______________________= the event used as the year 0 on our calendar

BC = ____________________

____ = Ano Domini or In the year of our lord

CE = ______________________

_________ – Before Current Era

Philosophy vs. Religion Philosophy: Religion:

In the Greek: o Philos =________________ o Sophia = knowledge/wisdom

“Love of knowledge”

Answers big q’s without the ______________________

Answers big q’s and involves ________________ in and _________________of God or gods

Both ar________________________or ways of organizing our beliefs

How Many Gods

______________ = belief about the existence of God/gods

Mono = One God

Poly =_________________

A = no God

____________= god is/is in all things

Universal: Ethnic:

_________________can be a part of that religion/ philosophy

Most are ______________into the religion/or a particular race

___________________: attempting to convert others to a religion or belief -Seek converts

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Questions all religions seek to answer

_____________________________

How did we get here?

What happens to us when we are no longer here?

What is “____________________________?”

How do you live a good life?

Why do _______________________________?

Summary: Write 2-3 sentences answering the essential question.

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Christianity Guided Reading Questions

Pages 40-44 The Carpenter and the Cross:

1. Who lived in Roman Palestine prior to the birth of Jesus?

2. What do the Gospels say about how Jesus lived his life?

3. What did Jesus proclaim himself to be?

4. What did Jesus’ disciples believe happened following his crucifixion?

5. What is the New Testament?

6. Why were early Christians persecuted by Rome?

The Way: The Christian Worldview:

7. Why was the Christian belief that God loved humankind so shocking to the people of Rome?

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8. What is agape love?

9. To whom did the message of Christianity strongly appeal?

10. What was the purpose of the Nicene Council? When did it occur?

11. Explain the Christian concept of the Trinity.

12. What caused the relationship between God and humans to be broken?

13. According to Christians, why did Jesus die on the Cross?

14. Christian beliefs’ rest on what single event?

15. What beliefs’ did the writings of Augustine help reinforce?

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Christianity Notes

Essnetial Question:

Size Founding

• ______________ religion in the world. • 2.2 Billion Followers

– Called Christians – many sects (____________________)

• ______________ – with life and

crucifixion of Jesus Christ

• Share early _______________with Jews (Old Testament) but Jews believe that Jesus is not Messiah (savior)

• Early Christians __________________

by Jews and Romans

Basic Beliefs Christianity Basics • People have tendency to be ________

(sin nature) • Salvation through ________________

– Trinitarian View (3 in one) – Some say faith alone, other say

works of faith • Split into _____________

and _________________

• Holy Book: _____________(Old and

New Testaments) • House of Worship: _____________ • Clergy: Priest, Minister, Pastor

• View of Jesus: ___________ and

Messiah (savior) • View of Church and State: __________

What is the Holy Text of a religion supposed to teach you?


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The Sermon on the Mount Group # _____

Characteristics of God/Jesus How we should live

1. 2. 3.

1. 2. 3.

Analysis Questions:

1. What does this text show us that the Christian God values. (Use examples) 2. What is the essential message that Jesus is preaching? 3. What words would you use to describe Jesus? (Explain why for each example)

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Reformation: Guiding Questions

Document A: Luther in 1517

1) (Sourcing) When was this document written? What was Luther’s purpose in writing it?

2) (Close reading) How would you describe Luther’s tone in this document?

3) (Close reading) According to this document, why did Luther challenge the Catholic Church?

Document B: Luther in 1535

1) (Sourcing) When was this document written? What was its purpose?

2) (Close reading) How would you describe Luther’s tone in this document?

3) (Close reading) According to this document, why did Luther challenge the Catholic Church?

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Corroboration

What are the differences between Luther’s account from 1517 and his account of 1535?

Difference in: 1517 1535

Tone

Place in Life

Disagreement

with the Church

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Hypothesis: After reading Documents A and B, and discussing the Guiding Questions, create a hypothesis regarding the question: Why did Martin Luther’s account of his break with the Church

change between 1517 and 1535? Is one account more reliable than the other?

Explain your answer with specific evidence.

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Enlightenment Notes

Essential Question

The Enlightenment

• Also known as the ______________________________ • 1650’s – 1776 • Emphasizes analysis, reason, and __________________

• Coincides with the Scientific Revolution

• Use _____________ to make all decisions = Rationalism • Trust nothing, test everything

• Challenges Romanticism, Authority, and the __________________________

• Cogito Ergo Sum What Spurred the Enlightenment?

• Availability of _________________ (including the Bible)

• Printing Press (Ind. Rev. again!!)

• Increased ______________________ rates • Use of the scientific method

Enlightenment Ideas

• Social ___________________t Theory

• Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan (1651), Jean Jacque Rousseau

• Governments and citizens have an unwritten ______________________

• People willingly give up their individual ______________________ to live under the rules of a government who serves them

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• If they no longer benefit the people, they should no longer give up their individual freedoms.

Enlightenment Ideas

• Natural Rights / ________________________

• John Locke (1689) • There are rights that we are given by __________

and no one can give or take them away, not even the king

• Life, _______________ , ___________________

Enlightenment Ideas

• The General ____________ • Jean Jacque Rousseau • Laws are made to force all to act for the good of

___________________ and not the self, which is then better for _____________ too.


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Enlightenment 3 Levels of Questions

Level 1

Definition

1.

2. 3.

Level 2

Definition

1.

2. 3.

Level 3

Definition

1.

2. 3.

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The Enlightenment Guided Reading

Dangerous Minds: The Enlightenment and Politics

1. How did people’s focus and faith change as a result of the enlightenment?

A Tale of Two Enlightenments: Pages 7-11

2. What was the core belief of the French Enlightenment?

3. Whom, did the Enlightenment, put faith in? Whom did it not have faith in?

4. How was God portrayed according to deists like Voltaire?

5. According to Enlightenment thinkers, how could the problems in humanity be solved?

6. What did the philosopher Hume believe about human reason?

7. What did Enlightenment thinkers believe about human nature?

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8. According to John Locke, what natural rights did all humans possess?

9. What was at the root of the concept of natural law?

10. What was Thomas Hobbes core belief about all people?

11. How was John Locke’s view of humans different from Hobbes’?

12. According to Locke, what obligation did rulers have? How should citizens respond if the rulers fail to meet those

obligations?

13. How did Montesquieu think you fix the problem of power corrupting leadership?

14. What did Rousseau believe about truth?

15. According to Rousseau, who should raise children?

16. What did Rousseau believe about the ability to reason? Who was closes the nature and what was naturally

right?

17. What did Rousseau’s Social Contract inspire long after his death?

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Backdrop to the Revolution Notes

Essential Question

Early French History

France formed around ______________ o Bourbon Dynasty begins in 1272

o Grew in _____________over the years o As new provinces were added each had a unique __________ and

___________ structure

Most laws favored the _________ and wealthy landowner

18th Century French Economy

Nearly all of the 70,000 government offices were ________________

Most wealthy elite had ____________ exemptions

Mismanagement of money left France in massive ____________

o Spent money lavishly in order to look financially ______________

18th Century French Society

France was divided up into 3 _______________

o 1st Estate: ___________ “Those Who Prayed” Made up of the clergy 1% of the population Controlled about _________ of the land

o 2nd Estate: _________ “Those Who Fought”

Made up of the nobility

About ___________ of the population Owned 25% of the land

Most ___________________ their titles However, most enjoyed both privileges and wealth ($$$).

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o 3rd Estate: Commoners/Peasants “Those Who Worked”

Made up of the ___________________ people About 90-97% of the population

Owned about _____________ of the land INCLUDES:

Doctors and_____________

Shopkeepers

The urban poor

The _____________

Bourgeoisie

Growing discontentment about the state of France

o ______________________ Laws differed by class and by location

o _______________________

Poorer citizens could be forces to buy or sell goods at a set price

Private agencies were hired to collect ________________

Often “shook down” rural peasants o ______________

Appeared ______________________ from French citizens The Palace at Versailles was created to draw wealthy out of

Paris to “______________” over the King


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History Channel – The French Revolution Documentary

Watch the introduction. There are no questions over this portion. It lasts about 3:30 minutes.

Political Alliances

1. Why did Louis XIV build Versailles outside the city limits of Paris?

2. How old was Louis XVI when he married?

3. Why did Louis and Marie marry?

4. Is Marie Antoinette interested in political affairs?

5. What is life like outside the gates of Versailles?

The Age of Enlightenment

1. France was broken into how many classes?

2. What new philosophical movement is sweeping through Europe during this time?

3. Who did Louis XIV support in the war against Great Britain?

4. What factors caused France to go bankrupt?

Madame Deficit

1. What did Marie like to do in her spare time?

2. What was her nickname?

3. What food was at the heart of the French diet?

Financial Crisis

1. The cost of what product skyrockets under Louis’s miss management of the economy?

2. Louis is advised by Jacques Necker to to call a meeting of what organization?

3. What percentage did the first two estates makeup? _______The 3rd estate? ______

4. Robespierre represents members of which estate?

5. What happens on the handball court on June 20th?

6. What is the name of the oath they take at this location?

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7. What does the 3rd estate rename themselves?

To the Bastille

1. Where do the people go for gunpowder?

2. What does each color of the flag represent? RED & BLUE:

______________________WHITE:_________________

3. What “gross” revolutionary tradition is born out of the fall of the Bastille?

4. What do the people do to the Bastille?

5. What does the Declaration of the Rights declare?

The People’s Friend

1. What was Jean-Paul Marat's role in the revolution?

2. Which group gets so angry that they march to Versailles?

3. Does Marie actually say, "Let them eat cake?"

4. June 21st, 1791 The King and Queen try to do what during the cover of darkness?

5. What is the "national razor?"

Foreign Assistance

1. Does Robespierre want to go to war with Austria? Why not?

2. What two nations begin war and invasion of France?

3. How can the birth of the Republic begin?

The Demise of Louis

1. What is the symbol of the san-culottes?

2. The National Assembly becomes known as the?

3. Who comes forward to help rally the French against the Austrian and Prussians?

Hint: He says "Boldness, more boldness, forever boldness and the fatherland is saved!"

4. What are the September Massacres?

5. What do the Jacobins want to do with the king? The Girondins?

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Noble Blood

1. What does Charlotte Corday do?

2. What does Marat become?

3. What is Marie Antoinette's sentence?

Defending the Border

1. What is "The Terror?"

2. What is the "Committee of Public Safety?"

3. What is Robespierre's paradox? (On what issue does he now contradict his earlier stance?)

Civic Virtue

1. What do people decide is the "root" of the problem?

2. Who is the new saint of France?

3. What brilliant young commander is leading France to victory on the battlefields?

4. Robespierre believes that terror can help create _____.

5. What happens to the Dantonists?

6. The tempo of executions increase to 800 or more per month in Paris alone during this new

phase called the _________________ terror.

The End of the Terror

1. What two events lead to the demise of Robespierre? (The Festival of the ____ Being, and a

speech of ____).

2. What is the irony of Robespierre's injury?

3. Who sheds the last blood of the terror?

4. Who becomes the leader of France after Robespierre?

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Each group will be assigned 4 articles. In your groups read each article and translate it into modern day

language that you would use.

Article #_____

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Based on the articles that you translated, what were some of the specific abuses that the Declaration of the

Rights of Man was supposed to protect against?

Article # Specific Abuse

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