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Age of Reason and French Rev.
last test first semester.
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History
10th Grade
12/13/2007

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The Estates
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clergy, nobility, commoners (98 %)
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Estate of bourgeoisie
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commoners
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Marie Antoinette was fascinated with...
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peasants; Peasant Cottage
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Marie's nicknames
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"that Austrian woman"; "Madame Deficit"
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why Louis XVI is in debt
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he was handed a government in debt
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Jacques Nekkar's idea about taxes
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redistribute them so that the rich had to pay more
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first phase of the French Revolution
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bourgeosie phase
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bourgeosie phase
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end problems in France peacefully; new constitution
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Tennis Court Oath
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600 delegates of the Third Estate walked out of the Estates General to protest the voting system, found the doors locked, went to the tennis courts and refused to leave until they had a new constitution= National Assembly
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carte-blanche warrant
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issued by Cardinal Fleury; done away with by Louis XVI
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Estates General voting system
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every class had 300 delegates and only one vote
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
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1st Estate; recgnizes the unfairness; say the 3rd is everything and should have political power
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nobody thought...
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peasants should vote
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culottes
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knee breeches nobility wore
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commoners
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long pants; worn sans culottes
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myth about Bastille
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Louis imprisoned them there for their beliefs
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storming of the Bastille
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July 14, 1789; France's independence day; peasants revolted=the Great Fear
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the Great Fear
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peasants heard noblemen talking about hiring thugs to do what they could, rumors flew, peasants went to courthouse and burned feudal records, broke into some houses
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what happens after the Bastille
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Louis recognizes the National Assembly and does away with the Estates General
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royal marriages
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open to the public
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August decrees
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made France a meritocracy; didn't same no more feudal dues; to answer Great Fear
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motto of National Assemnbly
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liberty, equality, fraternity
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National Assmebly's political view
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moderate
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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written by National Assembly; Enlightened influence; liberty, property, resistance of oppresion
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March of Women
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march 12 miles from paris to Versailles because price of bread is too high
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The October Days
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Louis and Marie moved to Tuilleries and Louis said he was surrounded by evil adivisors
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assignats
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paper money; need gold hurch land to back up; print by the National Assembly
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy says...
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the clergy oves its first loyalty to France and not the Pope
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after the king signs the French Constitution of 1791...
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the National Assembly changes to the Legislative Assembly with the power to tax
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government created after the constitution is signed
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limited/constitutional monarchy
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Legislative Assembly's goal
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make sure country wasn't turned over to the mob
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Louis and Marie helped to Austria by...
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Count Hans Axel con Fusen (Marie's lover)
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why Louis and Marie never crossed the border
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they went to a hotel and someone recognized him because his picture was on the assignats
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Olympe de Gouges
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women rights; Declaration of RIghts of Women and of the Citizen
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Brunswick Manifesto
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Duke of Brunswick said if the royal family is harmed, Paris will be leveled
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order of political opinions
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radicals, leftist, liberals, centrists, conservatives, right wings, reactionaries
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side of Jacobins
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left; liberal
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side of Girondists
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right; conservative
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causes of instability in France
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religious and political divisions; war; economic crisis; attitudes of monarchy and court
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Storming of Tuileries
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in response to Brunswick Manifesto; confirmed suspicions of the king's treason
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September Massacres
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anti revolutionary prisoners were gonna attack French armies from the back and Pruissia was gonna from the front; "drinkers of blood" killed 1,000
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Legislative Assembly abolished the monarchy
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September 22, 1792; Year one of the French Republic; Decree of Fraternity
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Decree of Fraternity
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France went to other countries to abolish the monarchies; "when France sneezes, all of Europe gets cold"
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Jacobins
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power base in Paris; supported by sans-culottes; extreme; saw Paris as center of Rev
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Girondists
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power base in provinces; feared sans-culottes and dominance of Paris; bourgeoise
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start of Jacobins
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as debating society that had meetings in the library of mostly middle class
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sans-culottes
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Parisian working class; wanted equality.
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Montagnards
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extreme Jacobins; thought the king was a traitor
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documents found at Tuileries...
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proved Louis's knowledge and encouragement of foreign intervention
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what Jacobins did NOT want
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a connection with the Church; change months and stuff
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Committee of General Security
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responsible for pursuit of counter revolutionaryies, treatment of suspects, and security matters
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Night Session
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abolished feudalism; all equal; August decrees
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Committee of Public Safety
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oversee and speed up government work during a crisis; head-Robespierre
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Jacobin leaders
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Robespierre,Danton, Morat
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Law of Suspects
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if you were enthusiastically supporting the republic you were arrested
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The Reign of Terror
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Robespierre did this to get everyone in control and so they will support the army
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radicals
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no God, religion, king, or constitution
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Thermidorean Reaction
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Robespierre gave a speech about new plots, friends turned against him and he's arrested
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the "Cultural Revolution"
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metric system; slavery abolished; divorce legalized
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