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22 Cards in this Set
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy was established in |
1790 |
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When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen written? |
It was written in 1789. |
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September Massacres (1792) |
Paris Commune executed thousands of people who were in city jails |
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Concordat with the Catholic Church (1801) |
-Made between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII -Declared Catholicism the "majority" religion in France -Church gave up claims to confiscated property and clergy had to swear an oath to the state -Subordinated church to state |
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Napoleonic Code (1804) |
-Patriarchal: authority to fathers/husbands -Equality before the law, freedom of religion, and abolition of privilege -Consolidation of hundreds of codes in France |
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Battle of Trafalgar (1805) |
-Naval battle -British admiral Lord Nelson destroyed combined French and Spanish fleets -Ended French hope of invading Britain |
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Confederation of the Rhine (1806) |
Organized by Napoleon, it included most of the West German provinces |
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Treaty of Tilsit (1807) |
Prussia openly and Russia secretly allied with Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Continental System |
Napoleon planned to cut off all British trade with Europe and this cripple their commercial and financial power |
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Jacques Necker |
Produced a public report in 17i1 that downplayed France's financial difficulties; said the budget was in surplus. |
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Cahiers De Doléances |
They are lists of grievances to be brought to the king. |
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Tennis Court Oath |
Members of the National Assembly took an oath to continue to sit until they made a constitution. |
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July 14, 1789 |
Fall of the Bastille |
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Great Fear |
Peasants vented their anger and reclaimed rights and properties they'd lost; targeted aristocratic and ecclesiastical landlords. |
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Night of August 4, 1789 |
-Several liberal nobles and clerics (by prearrangement) rose in the Assembly and renounced their feudal dues and rights -After this, all French citizens were equal |
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October 5, 1789 |
7,000 Parisian women marched to Versailles demanding bread and that Louis XVI and his family move to Paris |
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Constitution of 1791 |
The National Constituent Assembly established a constitutional monarchy |
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Declaration of the Rights of Women |
Olympe de Gouges said women should be considered citizens, be able to own property, have better education, and have equality in marriage |
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Legislative Assembly (1791-1792) |
Girondists took control and opposed counterrevolutionaries |
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Who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)? |
Edmund Burke wrote this, foreshadowing that the Revolution would result in anarchy. |
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Levée en Masse (1793) |
Government conscription into the French army |
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Committee of Public Safety |
Eventually had almost dictatorial power; Robespierre was a member of this committee |
