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22 Cards in this Set
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Ancien Regime
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Old Order of 3 classes
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First Estate
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The Clergy
Had lots of wealth, owned 10% land and didn't pay taxes, usually nobility |
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Second Estate
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Nobles - had top jobs in govt, army courts and church
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Third Estate
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98% of population
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Bourgeoisie
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Top of third estate - middle class - bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, professors.
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Abbe Sieyes
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wrote a pamphlet encouraging the Third Estate to change things "we do everything, we get nothing"
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Deficit Spending
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spending more money than you earn
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Louis XIV
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Left France in financial crisis from wars and luxury. 1789
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Jacques Necker
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Lous XVI's financial advisor who wanted to reduce court spending, reform govt and abolish tarriffs
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Cahiers
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List of grievances by all 3 estates asking for fairer taxes, free press and regular meetings.
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Tennis Court Oath
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When Nat'l Assembly (3rd Estate) got locked out of their meeting hall they met across the street at a tennis court and oath "wouldn't disband until there was a French constitution
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July 14, 1789
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The Bastille french prison was raided by Parisians marking the symbolic beginning of the french Revolution.
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The Great Fear
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Famine and fear caused peasants to attack nobles and their way of life.
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Lafayette
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Led The Moderates which organized the National Guard.
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National Guard
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Organized and led by Lafayette to defend Paris against the king's troops.
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Paris Commune
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The Radicals established it to get neighborhoods to protest and create violence to end the monarchy.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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Based on Declaration of Independence said men were free & equal, had right to liberty, property, security, religious freedom. Based taxes on ability to pay.
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Sans-culottes
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working class men and women wanted a republic that would guarantee their wages would allow them to survive.
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Jacobins
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a club of lawyers and intellectuals who supported the sans-culottes
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Suffrage
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the right to vote
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Robespierre
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Leader of the Committee of Public Safety who invented the "Reign of Terror"
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Reign of Terror
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established makeshift courts to kill approx. 40k people in 1 year.
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