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French Revolution
Causes of the Revolution
• Inequality– Old Order
• First Estate• Second Estate• Third Estate
• Enlightenment Ideas• Financial Crisis
– Drought– Food Shortages– American Revolution
Order of Events
• Spring 1789- Meeting of the Estates General• June 17th, 1789 National Assembly proclaimed• June 1789- Tennis Court Oath• July 14th, 1789 Storming of the Bastille• August 1789- Declaration of the Rights of Man• October 1789- Bread Riot• 1791- Legislative Assembly formed• June 1791- King and Queen flee Paris• 1792 Austria and Prussia sent troops to the French
border. The Legislative Assembly declares war.• August 1792- King and Queen thrown into prison.• National convention assumes power in France
The Republic
• Montagnards-Jacobins/Radicals
• Girondins/Moderates• Plain/Swing• Maximilien
Robespierre• January 21st, 1793-
Louis XVI is executed
• National Tribunal• Cult of the Supreme
Being• Metric system
Reign of Terror
• 300,000 people arrested.
• 17,000 executed• Louis XVI, Marie
Antoinette, Girondists, Robespeirre
• Lasted for 10 Months
• 1795 Directory established in France
Quiz
• Choose 4– First Estate– Second Estate– Third Estate– Louis XVI– Marie Antoinette– Maximilien
Robespierre
• Choose 1– What were the causes
of the French Revolution?
– What was the order of events in the French Revolution?
– What was the Reign of Terror and how did it end?
Napoleon’s Europe
Napoleon’s Europe
• Napoleon Bonaparte- Young General that rose to power in France as a result of the turmoil of the French Revolution.
• Admiral Horatio Nelson- trapped French ships and defeated Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
• Coup De’tat- Forced takeover of a government• Plebiscite- Question before the voters• Continental System- Blockade of trade with Great Britain• Nationalism- Pride in your nation or nationality, sense of
identity
Napoleon’s Empire in 1812
• Napoleon put his relatives in positions of power throughout Europe
• Diminished feudal privileges, nobility, power of the Church
• Conscription into the armies of France
• Label your Map of 1812 using the map from page 612 in the text.
• Color in Napoleon’s Empire
Napoleon’s Fall• Czar Alexander I- Ruler of Russia during the reign of
Napoleon• Hundred Days- Period of time that Napoleon ruled France
after his exile to Elba.• Duke of Wellington- Led combined forces of British,
Belgian, Dutch, and German troops against France at the Battle of Waterloo.
• Prince Klemens von Metternich- Represented Austria at the negotiations at the Congress of Vienna.
• Charles Maurice de Tallyrand- Represented King Louis XVIII of France at the Congress of Vienna.
• Indemnity- A payment to other countries for debt and damages of the Napoleonic wars.
• Reactionary- Want conditions to return to a time of absolute monarchy.
• Label your Map using the Map on page 618 in your text.
Legacy of the Revolution
• Monarchs restored in Europe
• Common people could change the world
• Map of Europe redrawn
• Enlightenment ideas and Nationalism inspired Revolutions in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Quiz
• Choose 4– Czar Alexander I- – Hundred Days-– Duke of Wellington- – Prince Klemens von
Metternich- – Charles Maurice de
Tallyrand-– Indemnity- – Reactionary-
• Choose 1– How did Napoleon rise
to power?– What events caused
disaster and defeat for Napoleon?
– What did the Congress of Vienna achieve?
– What is the legacy of the French Revolution?