NAME: ____________________________ PERIOD: ___ DATE: ____________ MRS. BRANFORD GLOBAL HISTORY 10

~ WHAT WAS THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? ~Directions: Read the information and complete the charts below

Introduction: What is a revolution?A revolution is a great change from the ways things were in the past.

Political Revolutionsa great change in government, usually including the

● overthrow of one government ● replacement of old leaders with new leaders or

a new system of government.

Non-Political Revolutionsa great change in technology or ideas, usually including the

● replacement of an old technology or innovation with a new technology or innovation

1. Based on the definition above, can you think of any examples of Political Revolutions? What changed as a result?

2. Based on the definition above, can you think of any examples of Non-Political Revolutions? What changed as a result?

3. Based on the information above, how are political and non-political revolutions similar?

4. Based on the information above, how are political and non-political revolutions different?

Depiction of the storming of the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792.Image is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and is public domain

See5. Identify three things you see in the image to the left.

Think6. Based on this image, what do you think occurred during the French Revolution?

Wonder7. Based on this image, what questions do you have about the French Revolution?

What was the French Revolution? When did the French Revolution begin?

There were four stages of the French Revolution:

Stage 1: 1789-1791 Stage 2: 1792-1794 Stage 3: 1795-1799 Stage 4: 1799-1815

National Assembly Radical Revolution Directory Age of Napoleon

Directions: Watch The French Revolution in a Nutshell (00:00 to 2:13) and read the transcript below then answer the questions below.

For hundreds of years prior to the revolution, French people like most Europeans were divided into three social estates:

clergy, nobility, and the lowest estate, the commoners, which existed to serve the other estates. Above all was God's gift

to mankind, the king.

But this hierarchy was being questioned by the Enlightenment, a the movement of intellectuals who promoted the

use of the reason and science. Revolutionary ideas began to spread to the public.

In the 1780s when an economically broken split monarchy tried to increase taxes on the commoners, resentment

reached a new level and riots began. On the fourteenth of July 1789, revolutionists stormed the Bastille fortress, a

symbol of the royal power. This date is marked as the beginning of the end of the old monarchy and became France’s

Independence Day, even though the king was beheaded in 1793.

Shortly after, the French adopted a universal declaration which stated, that “Men are born and remain free and equal in

rights.” This was a radical change even though it left many people out. But the French Revolution was far from a

smooth ride. Actually, it was a bloodbath which led to external and internal wars. The newly introduced guillotine

worked overtime beheading tens of thousands of French during the period known “The Terror.”

In 1799, the revolution ended when a military commander by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte seized control of the

French legislature, eventually declaring himself emperor.

8. Based on the video and transcript, what problems was France facing in the late 1700s?

9. Which event marked the end of the old monarchy? When did this event occur?