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Module 19
The French Revolution and Napoleon
Question | Answer |
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What were the three classes of French society? | The First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate. |
What three factors led to revolution? | The Enlightenment, a failing economy, and a weaker leadership. |
Why did the National Assembly form? | To create a government that represented all French people. |
Who led the events that happened during the Great Fear? | Peasants and women. |
How did the three estates contribute to the revolutionary mood in France? | The three estates showed that the majority of the people had very little influence on government. |
How did the Enlightenment ideas contribute to the revolutionary mood in France? | The people in the Third Estate wanted to change the structure of their society. |
How did the economic crisis contribute to the revolutionary mood in France? | People were hungry and become angry with their leaders. |
How did the weak leadership contribute to the revolutionary mood in France? | The king and queen were more interested in their own activities than leading, and this allowed the Third Estate to gain power. |
What is meant by the Old Regime? | It is the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution. |
What are estates? How many were there in France during the 1700s? | They are the three large social classes. The First Estate consisted the clergy; the Second Estate is the nobility; the Third Estate is the rest of the common people and peasants. |
The members of which estate were most likely to support Enlightenment ideas? | The Third Estate. |
Explain the three main factors that contributed to the revolution. | 1. The rise of the Enlightenment ideas - new ideas about power and authority in government were spreading. 2. Economic Troubles - Frances's economy was in decline. 3. A Weak Leader - a stronger leadership might have solved all those problems. |
What was the Estates-General? How did they traditionally meet? How many votes did each Estate have? | It is a assembly of representative from all three of the estates in france. Each estate's delegates met in a separate hall to vote, and each estate had one vote. |
How did the Third Estate want to change the Estates-General? | They insisted all three estates meet together and each delegate have a vote. |
What was the National Assembly? Who was it made up of? What did they want to accomplish? | It is a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
What was the Tennis Court Oath? What was it response to? | It is a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. Nobles and members of the clergy who favored reform joined the Third Estate delegates. |
How did Louis react to the Tennis Court Oath? | Louis stationed his mercenary army of swiss guards around Versailles. |
Describe the storming of the Bastille. | A state prison on the east of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison became a symbol of revolution to the French people. |
What was the Great Fear? What set it off? | The Great Fear is a wave of senseless panic that spread through French countryside after the storming of Bastille in 1789. |
What was the reason for the women's riot and March on Versailles? What did they want? What was the result? | Thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising price of brea. They first demanded that the National Assembly take action to provide bread. Then they broke into that palace and demand Louis and his family return Paris. |
How were the storming of the Bastille and the women's march on Versailles similar? | They were both worried that they would be terrorized. |
How were the storming of Bastille and the women's march on Versailles different? | During the storming of the Bastille, people were massacred guards. During the attack on Versailles, the people were mainly after the king and queen, however killed anyone who's in their way. |
What new laws came into being? | The people of the First and Second Estates loss their special rights, and all French men were again given equal rights. |
In what ways did the emigres and sans-culottes have opposite goals? | The emigres wanted the king and nobles to have more power, but the sansculottes wanted common people to have more power. |
What happened to the king? | He was reduced to a common person and then found guilty of treason and behaved. |
How long did the Reign of Terror last? | One year |
What are some rights this document guarantees French citizens? | All men are equal. |
What caused the peasants to oppose many of these reforms? | The peasants were religious and believed the pope should rule over the church. |
What political factions made up the Legislative Assembly? | Radicals, moderates, and conservatives. |
What did European monarchs fear from France? | They feared that people in their countries would also revolt against the monarchies. |
What effects did the September Massacres have on the government? | The massacres forced the start of a new governing body without a king as ruler. |
What was the stated aim of Robespierre and his supporters? | They wanted to build a new France, calling it a "republic of virtue" through terror. |
What were some consequences of the Reign of Terror? | Thousands of French people were murdered, the price of necessities increased and power was put in the the hands of the upper middle class. |
What did the nobles join the National Assembly in eliminating? | Getting rid of the feudal privileges of the 1st and 2nd Estates, tax exemption goxt positions. |
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