Flashcards
Chapter 9
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- 1San-Culottes3rd estate, wore pants lol, and struggled with food
- 2Levee en masseConscript the masses!
Lazare Carnot basically said that everyone has to fight for France - 3ParlementRoyal government that could veto attempts to tax the nobles
- 4Louis XVIstupid king that didnt want the nobles to rebel so he didn't tax them and would tax the 3rd estate which would lead to him being captured and he would try to escape and get caught and got executed
- 5Marie AntoinetteAustrian princess who wasnt good with money and she didn't like her husband and only married for an alliance with france
- 6Marquis de LafayetteGood noble who arranged the national guard to help the revolution
- 7Olympe de GougesWrote the rights of women and wanted basic human rights for women
- 8Count artoisYounger cousin of Louis that tried to help them escape
- 9General DumouriezLost a battle to the Austrians and then left to join them
- 10Maratradical writer that wanted girondins executed and was murdered in his bathtub by a girondin
- 11Lazare CarnotConscript the masses
- 12RobespierreLeader of Jacobins and was very radical led the reign of terror which killed 20000 people got arrested by thermidorians for wanting to kill them and was executed himself
- 13France's pre-revolution problemsNo money
- 14The Estates- General compositionClergy and nobility dominated 3rd esate got mad and wanted less taxes and louis granted them but it wasn't enough
- 15The Tennis Court OathMembers of the 3rd estate agreed to keep meeting until their conditions were met by the king
- 16The storming of the Bastille3rd estate wanted gunpowder to arm themselves so they went to take the bastille louis got scared and tried to take soldiers away to show he wasn't gonna kill them
- 17The Great FearPeasants had famine and taxes and were tired of it so they went and burned tax papers and burned nobles estates
- 18The Abolition of FeudalismEnded old rules and taxes and made everyone equal but louis hesitated to make this change which angered 3rd estate
- 19Declaration of the rights of man and the citizenHad no time to write a constitution and was made by lafayeete and thomas jefferson
- 20The Women's March on ParisWomen marched to the palace of versailles because they were hungry and they wanted to show Louis how bad it was so they took him and held him captive
- 21Civil Constitution of the churchAltered constitutional status of the church
- 22Changes while France was a constitutional monarchyUnder the new constitution: The king could delay legislation passed by the unicameral legislature for at most 4 years. The king would continue to control foreign policy and the military. A complex system of indirect elections was set up.
- 23Jacobins vs. GirondinsJacobins were radical and wanted to kill the king they would disagree and make the right and left wing political sides
- 24The September Massacres of 1792San-culottes stormed a royal palace and murdered many nobles for counter-revolutionary thoughts
- 25The National ConventionUniversal male sufferage and started to make a constitution
- 26The battle of ValmyThe threat to Paris ended after a French army stopped the combined Austrian and Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy.
France became a republic after this - 27The Reign of TerrorFrom the summer of 1793 to the following summer, France was deep in the Reign of Terror. The Revolution was believed to be threatened by internal and external enemies. Rule of law and fair trials were put on hold. The guillotine became a symbol of the age. In the end, over 20,000 people were executed. 15% of them were nobles or clergy, the rest were peasants accused of counter-revolutionary activities. Eventually, the Terror turned on those who started it. Danton and his closest Jacobin followers were guillotined for arguing that it was time to end the Terror.
- 28The Committee of Public SafetyExecuted Girondins politicians
- 29How the Jacobins used the san-culottesThe sans-culottes were used by the Jacobins, and a mob of them stormed the hall of the Convention and demanded the Girondins be expelled. To appease the sans-culottes, the Jacobins established a law of maximum prices, placing limits on the price of bread. They also taxed the wealthy to pay for the war effort.
- 30The new calendarOnce in power, the Jacobins worked to obliterate all traces of the old monarchy. They came up with a new calendar based on weeks of 10 days instead of 7. Workers were angry as they still only had one day off a week.
- 31The Themidoriansthey killed robespirerre and his allies after a quick trial of 15 days
- 32The Directoryt was led by an executive council of five men who possessed the title of director. A new constitution provided a two house legislature: The Council of the Ancients. Discussed and voted on legislation. The Council of Five Hundred. Proposed legislation.