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AP European History/Neiffer
Reading Guide:Chapter 18: The French Revolution!
The Crisis of the French Monarchy 
The Monarchy Seeks New Taxes
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What caused French debt during this time?
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Why was taxation such a contentious issue between the Monarchy and the Nobility?
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Rene Mauperou
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How did the personal reputations of Louis XV and Marie Antoinette impact the taxation issue?Necker's Report
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Jacques Necker
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What did the Necker report blame France's debt on?Calonne's Reform Plan and the Assembly of Notables
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802)
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What was Calonne's plan for reform?
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Assembly of NotablesDeadlock and the Calling of the Estates General
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Calonne fired!
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Estates General called
The Revolution of 1789
The Estates General Becomes the National Assembly
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The First Estate
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The Second Estate
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The Third Estate
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“What is the Third Estate?” - Abby Sieyes
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Voting issues
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What is the Third Estate doubled? What impact did that have?
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Cahiers de Doleances
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Declaration of the National Assembly
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The Tennis Court OathFall of the Bastille
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The Bastille Prison
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bread pricesThe Great Fear and the Night of August 4
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Why so serious, France?The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Why was the Declaration issued?
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What did the Declaration promise?
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How did its application to men only impact the debate?The Parisian Women's March on Versailles
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Why did women March to Versailles?
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Louis XVI likes watches...and that's about it.
 
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What was the response?
The Reconstruction of France
Political Reorganization
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What did the new government look like?
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Active vs. passive citizens
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Olympe de Gourges's - “Declaration of the Rights of Women”
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departments
Economic Policy
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Chapelier Law
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Confiscation of Church Lands
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 Assignats
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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What changes dud the National Assembly make to religious policy in France?
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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What was the impact of the Civil Constitution?
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What was the reaction from French citizens?Counterrevolutionary Activity
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emigres
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Louis XIV escapes!
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Declaration of Pillnitz
The End of the Monarchy: A Second Revolution
National Assembly Legislative Assembly
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Emergence of the Jacobins
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What did Jacobins believe?
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Girondists
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Declaration of war on Austria
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Right to bear arms submittedThe Convention and the Role of the Sans-Culottes
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The September Massacres
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The National Convention
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sans-coulottes
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The Mountain
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Execution of Louis XIV
Europe at War with the Revolution
Edmund Burke Attacks the Revolution
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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The Rights of Man
– Thomas PaineSuppression of Reform in Britain
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William Pitt the Younger
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What actions did Pitt take to stop criticism of his government?The Second and Third Partitions of Poland 1783, 1795
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Hard to imagine why the guys didn't want to wear these AWESOME pants...
 
The Reign of Terror 
War with Europe
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What was the status of the French war during this time?
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What was the response by those interested in protection the revolution?The Republic Defended
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Committee of Public Safety
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Levee en Masse
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mass executionsThe “Republic of Virtue” and Robespierre's Justification of Terror
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Maximilien de Robespierre
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What defense did Robespierre give for terror?Repression of the Society of Revolutionary Republican WomenDe-Christianization
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New calendar
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The Temple of ReasonRevolutionary Tribunals
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Marie AntoinetteThe End of the Terror
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Jacques Danton
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Cult of the Supreme Being
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Execution of Robespierre
The Thermidorian Reaction
9 ThermidoreEstablishment of the DirectoryRemobal of the Sans-Culottes from Political Life
Review Questions
1. Why has France been called a rich nation with an impoverished government? How did the financialweaknesses of the French monarchy lay the foundations of the revolution of 1789? 2. What were Louis XVI’smost serious mistakes during the French Revolution? Had he been a more able ruler, could the FrenchRevolution have been avoided or a constitutional monarchy could have succeeded? Did the revolutionultimately have little to do with the competence of the monarch? 3. How was the Estates Generaltransformed into the National Assembly? How does the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect thesocial and political values of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment? How were France and its governmentreorganized in the early years of the revolution? Why has the Civil Constitution of the Clergy been called thegreatest blunder of the National Assembly? 4. Why were some political factions dissatisfied with theconstitutional settlement of 1791? What was the revolution of 1792 and why did it occur? Who were the sans-culottes, and how did they become a factor in the politics of the period? How influential were they during theTerror in particular? Why did the sans-culottes and the Jacobins cooperate at first? Why did that cooperationend? 5. Why did France go to war with Austria in 1792? What were the benefits and drawbacks for France of fighting an external war in the midst of a domestic political revolution? 6. What were the causes of the
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