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A Great Fear Sweeps France!
Rumors and Panic spread throught France in the mid to late 1700s
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9th Grade
02/07/2011

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Great Fear
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attacks by peasants taking place across France
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Peasants
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Destroy legal papers binding them to feudal sytem
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October 1789- revolt over rising costs of bread
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Women revolt
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Women
Definition
demanded action forcing louis to return from Versailles to Paris
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Noblemen join National Assembly and abolish Old Regime because
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they were in fear
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Olympe de Gouges
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Equal rights for women writer.
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Was accused of being against the new Declaration of ther Rights of Man and was executed
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Olympe de Gouges
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"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
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Declaration of the Rights of Man motto
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____________ adopts Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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National Assembly
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National Assenbly seizes___________ and turns __________ into public officials paying them the public official salary as well.
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Church lands, the clergy
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"Life, Equality, Fraternity, and Resistance to oppression"
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slogan Revolutionary leaders used
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Church lost
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land, political independence.
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This action offended many peasants who were devout Catholics
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seizing of church land, and turning clergy into public officials
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Assembly changed the church because of this
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Economic reasons to pay off France's debt
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_________ tries to escape but was brought back under custody by Revolutionaries
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Louis XVI
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The Royal family was caught escaping near ______________' border
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Netherland's
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Moderates
Definition
Sat in the center. wanted some changes in government
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Radicals
Definition
sat to the left
Opposed ideas of monarchy and wanted sweeping changes
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Conservatives
Definition
sat on the right
Wanted limited monarchy and few changes
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What year did the Assembly finish the new constitution for France
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September 1791
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Legislative Assembly
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new body created to pass laws and approve/ reject war
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Could approve/ reject war
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Legislative assembly
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Could make/pass laws
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Legislative assembly
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King was still allowed to do what under Legislative Assembly?
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Hold power to enforce laws
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Major problems, including debt, food shortages remained in France causing 3 way split in __________ to fix the problems.
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Assembly
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What were the three groups the assembly splitted into?
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Conservatives
Radicals
Moderates
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Emigres
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nobles who flee country, want Old Regime back in power
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sans culottes
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"those without knee breeches"
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lower class who want more change from the Revolution
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sans culottes
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Found ways to exert their power on the streets of Paris
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The lower class
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___________ AND ____________ wants Louis in Charge over France
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Austria, Prussia
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Declares war in April 1792
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France
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Austrians/Prussians feared that
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their people would revolt like the French
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Prussians soon threaten to attack Paris if
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Parisians harmed the royal family
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Parisian mob of___________ jails family, kills guards on ________
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20,000
August 10th
Term
Where did the Parisian mob of 20,000 imprison the royal family?
Definition
Tuileries
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Mob breaks into prisons, killing over 1,000...why?
Definition
In fear of those who support the king will band together and revolt
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These three groups of people died during Great Fear.
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Priests, Royalists, Sympathizers
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____________ disposes of king and then dissolves after setting aside noew constitution in 1791
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Legislative Assembly
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National Convention
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takes office in September, forming French Republic
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Who were ignored after Men were given rights and ability to vote?
Definition
Women
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George Danton
Definition
lower class, speaker, supported the poor
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Jacobins
Definition
radicals political organization behind 1792 governmental changes
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Jean Paul-Marat
Definition
sickly, writer that stirred up France. Was brutally stabbed to death while bathing
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After a close vote, this person was beheaded at the guillotine after being charged for treason and found guilty.
Definition
King Louis the sixteenth
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Guillotine
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machine designmed during the Revolution to behead people
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At the battle of Valmy this country Wins the war against whom?
Definition
France wins against Austria and Prussia
Term
in 1793 these countries gang up on France
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Britain, Spain, and Holland
Term
National Convention drafts how many between the age 18 to 41 including women?
Definition
300,000
Term
The French army grew to what number after draft
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800,000
Term
The French army grew to what number after draft
Definition
800,000
Term
Not all people in France support all changes of the revolution, who?
Definition
Peasants, priests, and rival leaders.
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Maximilien Robespierre
Definition
Jacobinleader rules France for a year
Term
Redo's calander discontinuing Sunday and Churches in fear of Religion being risky
Definition
Maxmilien Robespierre
Term
Reign of Terror
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Robespierre's rule
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The leader of the Committee of Public Safety ( a dictor)'s goal:
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Protect the revolution from its enemies
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_______ % of middle or lower class die during the terror.
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85%
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Maria Antionette and who else died during Terror?
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Allies
Term
Enemies were tried in the morning, but
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Guillotine was in the afternoon
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Allies were killed for being less what?
Definition
Radical
Term
What happened July 28,1794
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Robespierre was arrested and executed
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Terror results in
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public opninion shifting away from radicals
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Moderate Leaders write __________ in 1795 placing power into the _________
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new constitution, upperclass
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The __________ and__________ restore order even if they were not idealists.
Definition
Two-house legistlature, five-man Directory
Term
New govenment makes who commander of armies?
Definition
Napoleon Bonaparte
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