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59 Cards in this Set
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Financial difficulties in France (1789) was brought about by |
- Drought - Hailstorm |
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Where and why was the Estates General Convened by Louis XVI? |
Versailles, to solve France's financial problem |
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Seating arrangement of Estates General |
Left: Second Estate Right: Second Estate Rear: Third Estate |
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Necessity of reforms |
- Wide-spread economic distress - Feeling of unrest among the peasants and bourgeoisie |
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Principal reform of the Third Estate |
Set up constitutional government to abolish fiscal privileges of church and nobility |
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He's a writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist who favored a constitutional monarchy |
Honoré Mirabeau |
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French Roman Catholic abbé and clergyman, who wrote the pamphlet entitled "What is the Third Estate?" |
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès |
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“What is the Third Estate?” postulated three questions |
What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it ask? To become something. |
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Issue on voting |
- Voting by head: third estate - Voting by Estate: first and secon estate |
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The third estate proclaims itself as ____ |
National Assembly |
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Where the Third Estate converged after finding themselves locked out of the hall where they usually met |
Tennis Court |
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Swore not to disband until France had a new constitution; considered by many to be the beginning of the French Revolution |
Tennis Court Oath |
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Seating of Three Estates as One made Estates General as |
National Constituent Assembly |
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What are the price differences of bread during the revolution? |
14 sous from previous 8 sous |
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Government established by revolutionaries in Paris |
Paris Revolutionary Commune |
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Citizen militia set up by the Paris Revolutionary Commune |
National Guard |
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They were called Sans Culottes |
Paris Mob |
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It is raided and captured by the Paris Mob on July 14, 1789 |
Bastille |
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French Royal Prison |
Bastille |
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How tall are Bastille's walls and towers? |
- wall: 10 ft - tower: 90 ft |
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It is the symbol of totalitarian power |
Bastille |
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Who did Loius XVI recalls as economic minister? |
Jacques Necker |
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Who did Louis XVI appoints as commander of the National Guard? |
Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette |
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It refers to the French national flag, blue white red |
Tricolour |
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Flag: It represents the Bourbon dynasty |
White |
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Flag: It represents Paris |
Red and Blue |
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What was abolished after the First and Second Estates surrendered their rights over the peasants? |
Feudalism |
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Statement of principles upon which the National Constituent Assembly proposed to erect the new government |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen |
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Natural Rights of the People |
- Liberte - Egalite - Fraternite |
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They marched to Versailles demanding bread from Louis XVI |
Poor Women of Paris |
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The first written constitution of France |
1791 Constitution |
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Government created by the 1791 Constitution for France |
Constitutional Monarchy |
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Power of the established unicameral parliament |
- To make laws - To levy taxes - To spend public money |
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Conspires with her brother Leopold II of Austria to bring down the French Constitutional Monarchy |
Marie Antoinette |
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Brother of Marie Antoinette who's anxious not to allow harm to fall to the royal family |
Leopold II |
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First Coalition Countries |
Austria Prussia England Holland Spain Portugal Sweden Sardinia |
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Where was Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette recognized? |
Small town of Varennes |
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They gave Legislative Assembly a deadline to suspend Louis XVI |
Paris Commune |
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Radicals assault the ____ where the royal family had been staying |
Tuileries Palace |
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Radicals established this new local government |
"commune” at the Hotel de Ville |
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How many royalists did the radicals execute? |
1,000 |
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Who backed the radicals in abolishing the Legislative Assembly? |
National guard |
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Term used by the radicals to refer to the new government |
National Convention |
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Foundation of the National Convention |
Universal Suffrage |
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Leaders of National Convention |
- Maximilien Robespierre - Jean-Paul Marat - Georges-Jacques Danton |
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Government established for France by the 1793 Constitution |
First French Republic |
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It symbolized the First French Republic |
The Republic |
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"The Republic" Characteristics |
Classical garb in Tricolour with military helmet Bare breast Left hand: Inverted emblematic pike of the revolution, red Phrygian bonnet on top Right hand: Balance |
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1793 Constitution was inspired by |
- Declaration of the Rights of Man - Citizen of 1789 |
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Economic and social rights of 1793 Constitution |
- Right of association - Right to work and public assistance - Right to public education - Right of rebellion |
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National Convention Internal Problem |
Factionalism between moderate vs extreme radicals |
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Constituted the moderate radicals; Not in favor with mob rule in streets of Paris (constitutional monarchy) |
Girodins |
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Leader of the Girodins |
Jacques Pierre Brissot |
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Aimed at bringing about absolute revolution |
Montagnards |
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Strongly support the Montagnards |
Sans Culottes |
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Grant of broad executive authority to the Committee of Public Safety |
Reign of Terror |
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Aims to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign enemies |
Committee of Public Safety |
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Number of members: Committee of Public Safety |
9, later 12 |
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Most influential member of the Committee on Public Safety |
Maximilien Robespierre |
