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EurFrenchRev
French REvolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grievances of the French people that they wrote down before the meeting of the Estates General | Cahiers de doléances |
| Physiocrat tried to reform French finances and impose a single direct tax on land to replace all the indirect taxes leading to massive opposition | Anne Robert Jacques Turgot |
| Finance minister who, instead of institution reforms, kept the traditional policies of borrowing; when he tried to raise taxes, he was dismissed and increasing spending | Jacques Necker |
| The Nobility | The Second Estate |
| Peasants, Middle Class, and the urban workers | Third Estate |
| Clergy | First Estate |
| Required days that the peasants had to work for the nobles | Corvée |
| Wrote "What is the Third Estate?" saying that the Third Estate was the assembled will of the nation | Abbé Sieyès |
| Louis XVI called this to deal with the financial crisis: the country was on the verge of bankruptcy | The Estates General |
| The Third Estate declared itself this when it couldn't reach agreement and then invited the members of the other estates to join it | National Assembly |
| The National Assembly pledged that it would not disband until it had given France a constitution | Tennis Court Oath |
| When the French people feared the king would have the military disperse the National Assembly, the people marched to this symbol of despotism | The Bastille |
| Appointed head of the National Guard to protect the revolution | Marquis de Lafayette |
| Rumors that swept the countryside of bandits bandits, in the pay of the king or nobility, attacking peasants; led to peasant riots attacking courts and noble manors | Great Fear |
| Expressed Enlightenment principles such as legal equality, freedom of religion, judicial rights, and "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression" | Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen |
| Why the royal family left Versailles and went to Paris | The Women's march or the October Days |
| paper money issued by the National Assembly using the confiscated land of the church as security | assignats |
| REquirement that all priests to swear an oath of loyalty to the revolution | Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
| Created a constitutional monarchy with a single legislative assembly | Constitution of 1791 |
| Nobles who fled France | Emigrés |
| Attempt by the royal family to escape from France | Flight to Varennes |
| Most prominent political club became more and more radical, calling for a republic, led by Robespierre | Jacobins |
| Englishman who condemned the radical destruction of France's traditions and predicted that the revolution would end in a military dicatatorship | Edmund Burke |
| Thomas Paine responded to Edmund Burke by writing this defense of the revolution | Rights of Man |
| Wrote Declaration of Rights of Woman, asserting women's rights plus the right to divorce and control property and careers | Olympia de Gouges |
| Englishwoman who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft |
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