causes of the french revolution
- peasants were mad (income, taxes)
- poor harvests
- bankrupt of government (debts )
- aristocratic resistance against taxes
- censorship
- unpopularity of church hierarchy and privileges
- taxes to church
- noble privileges
Louis XVI
- married to Marie Antoinette
- french revolution
Necker
financial official during french revolution
Edmund burke
English critic
- state is partnership
- no reform
- sudden change = no okay, gradual change = okay
- during french revolution
- warned that mob rule would lead to anarchy and military dictatorship
robspierre
=Jacobin leader
Pitt the younger
British organizer of alliances against forces of revolution and napoleon
the french revolution timeline
- calling of estates general (solve bankruptcy)
- tennis court oath
- Bastille
- the great fear
- Austria and Prussia threaten to invade France
- legislative assembly declare war
- sans-culottes took control and pressure the legislative assembly into calling for anew national convention
- national convention declare republic and kill king
- giondrists outed Jacobins
- then there were threats from girodinsts and royalists and foreign threats
- reign of terror
the great fear
agarain revolt during french revolution
emigres
princes and nobles who fled France to raise foreign opposition
national assembly / constituent assembly
- limited monarchy
- metric system
- abolish internal taxes
- abolish guilds
civil constituent of assembly
- church nationalized
- church are employees of the state
- took lands
- took an loath
- church officials elected by the people
Le chapelier law
against organised labor
assignats
bonds issued by government
- later used as currency
- over issue led to high inflation
Jacobin
-racial revolutionizes
-no monarchies
-republic
-not lyattete
-king dead
-supported by sans-coulerte
-
girondins
- more moderate than Jacobins
- advocates of war with Russia
- extend french revolutionary ideas
- king improsioned
declaration of pilnitz
Leopold II of Austria threaten war with France
-wanted to restore absolutism
september massacres
massacre of royalists
vendee
counterrevolutionary uprising in western central France
-suppressed by Robespierre
thermiorian reaction
reaction against extremism of Robespierre
- ended terror
- started directory
the directory
- led by bourgeois (rich)
- new Constitution (corrupt)
- continued war
outcomes of french revolution
-overthrow of monarchy (execution)
-power of nobility weakened
-secularization of church
-new metric system, calender
-
what lands did napoleon conquer
Netherlands, Italy, Dalmatia, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Egypt and Russia
admiral nelson
victor at Trafalgar
-defeated napolone
trafalgar
admiral nelson destroyed french and Spain fleets (napoleon)
