Question | Answer | Causes and Effects | |
American Revolution | - (1775-1789)
- America's war for independence
- British wanted the Americans to pay their share of imperial expenses | - British refused to compromise thus losing the support of many colonists
- France supports America even though they're not doing so well at home
- Bankrupts France | |
Stamp Act | - 1765
- Tax Britain put into place to help with revenue from French and Indian War | - Caused Revolution
- Allowed France to get revenge on England | |
Constitutional Convention | - The first years of the Convention were the height of the importance of the revolutionary political clubs such as the Jacobins and Cordeliers | | |
French Revolution | - (1789-1791) | - Many French soldiers, such as Lafayette, served in America and were impressed by the ideals of the Revolution
- American Revolution influenced the French Revolution, but the latter was more violent and more influential
- abolished the absolute monar | |
Bill of Rights | - Set of 10 amendments | | |
Estates General | - Becomes National Assembly
- the representative body of the three estates | - French King was no longer in charged | |
National Assembly | - 1789 to 1791
- abolished
-class distinctions
-tax exemptions of the privileged
-payments of feudal dues by the peasants
- would pass nation's law
- members had to be property landowners elected by tax paying citizens | | |
Estates | The first estate, the clergy, had many privileges and much wealth, and it levied an oppressive tax (the tithe) on landowners. | The second estate, the nobility, also had great privileges. wealth, and power, and it taxed the peasantry for its own profit. | The third estate, the commoners, was a mixture of a few rich members of the middle class, urban workers, and the mass of peasants. |
Declaration of Rights of Man | - 1791
- men are born free and equal with rights to liberty and property and resistance to oppression
- citizens avoin
- guaranteed equality before the law
- think it out for yourself
- map out human knowledge and have access to it | | |
Maximilien Robspierre | - Head of Committee of Public Safety
- Leads France through Reign of Terror | Fear of the Reign of Terror led to the execution of its leader, Robespierre. | |
King Louis XVI | - (1754 - 1793)
- Last king of France
- Husband to Marie Antoinette | - People became angry | |
Committee of Public Safety | - (1793 – 1794)
- The Committee of Public Safety was the executive body of France | - Was created to govern France | |
The Girondists | - Group contesting control of the National Convention | | |
The Mountain | - Group contesting control of the National Convention in France led by Robespierre and Georges Jaques Danton | | |
Reign of Terror | - 1794
- instituted by Committee of Public Safety (headed by Robespierre)
- sentenced thousands of people to jail or death
- arrested persons suspected of treason | - Was after the Revolution | |