Constitutional Monarchy, Republic, & War with Europe

Revolution of 1789 (No note-taking)

Players Events*First Estate * Tennis Court Oath*Second Estate * National Assembly*Third Estate * National Constituent *Populace Assembly

* Bastille/Great Fear* Dec. Rights of Man and Citizen* Constitution of 1791

I. The Three Estates (in 1789)

1. First Estate

2. Second Estate

3. Third Estate

II. Meeting of the Estates General1. Aristocracy made 2 demands

a) 1st

b) 2nd

Problem?

2. Cahiers de doleances = (ordered by Louis XVI) was a

a) list of grievances brought to royal palace

1) criticized

2) demanded

3. A stand-off b/c Third Estate refused to sit as a separate

a) 3rd Estate invites _______&______ to join them in organizing a new legislative body.

b) some clergy

c) June 17 – they declare

d) June 19 – 2nd Estate

4. Tennis Court Oatha) Day after 2nd Estate joins 3rd Estate

b) Vowed not to leave hand ball court until

c) Louis XVI then orders

So…goes from 1) Estates General to 2) National Assembly to the renamed 3) National Constituent Assembly to 4) Legislative Assembly

III. Two new forces on the scene (Louis & the populace)

1. Louis musters troops near

2. Populace reacts to this by

a)

b) July 1789 – citizens storm the

IV. Lafayette & the National Guard1. Paris militia call on him to

2. Tri-color flag

3. Louis (again bowing to the immediate circumstances) arrives in Paris

a)

b)

V. The Great Fear1. Peasants attacked

2. Determined to take

3. Several liberal nobles and clerics

4. August 4, 1789, ALL French citizens were subject to

VI. Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

1. Drew on

2. Protected __________& ____________ but did not provide for

3. Women & march to Versailles

VII. Reconstruction of France1. National Constituent Assembly

a) main goals

b) Political Reform

c) Active v. Passive Citizens

2. Departments

3. Metric System

4. Economic reform

a)

b) Chapelier Laws

1) banned guilds & strikes (why?)

c) confiscated Church lands

d) Assignats

5. Religious Reform

a) Civil Constitution of the Clergy

1) One of the assembly’s BIGGEST

mistakes (why?)

b) Refractory Clergy

VIII. Counterrevolutionary Activity1. Emigres

2. Flight to Varennes

3. Declaration of Pillnitz

4. Meanwhile, things are contentious in France

This is the end of the 1st Stage of the Revolution. The 2nd Revolution would bring an end to the monarchy.

IX. The Jacobins1. One group that divides into 2 sub-

groups:a) Mountain

1) wanted a Republic vs a 2) called Mountain b/c

3) leaders =

4) It’s when the Mountain allies with the popular revolution (sans- culottes) that the 2 sub-groups are formed.

b. Girondists

1) called this b/c

2) assumed leadership in Leg. Assemb.

3) wanted a constitutional monarchy

4) April 1792 declare war on

5) Believed revolution had gone far enough

X. September Massacres1. Paris citizens

XI. The Convention1. Paris commune calls on Leg. Assembly to

elect a new Assembly to write a

_____________ ____________.

2. This new assembly is called the Convention.

a) Its first act =

b) replaces

XII. Sans-culottes1. Radical group of

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

f) cooperate w/

XIII. Execution of a Monarch

1. Louis XVI charged with

2. Girondists wanted to

3. King beheaded January 21, 1793

4. The next month, the Convention declared war on