French Revolution

Causes of the Revolution

• Inequality– Old Order

• First Estate• Second Estate• Third Estate

• Enlightenment Ideas• Financial Crisis

– Drought– Food Shortages– American Revolution

Order of Events

• Spring 1789- Meeting of the Estates General• June 17th, 1789 National Assembly proclaimed• June 1789- Tennis Court Oath• July 14th, 1789 Storming of the Bastille• August 1789- Declaration of the Rights of Man• October 1789- Bread Riot• 1791- Legislative Assembly formed• June 1791- King and Queen flee Paris• 1792 Austria and Prussia sent troops to the French

border. The Legislative Assembly declares war.• August 1792- King and Queen thrown into prison.• National convention assumes power in France

The Republic

• Montagnards-Jacobins/Radicals

• Girondins/Moderates• Plain/Swing• Maximilien

Robespierre• January 21st, 1793-

Louis XVI is executed

• National Tribunal• Cult of the Supreme

Being• Metric system

Reign of Terror

• 300,000 people arrested.

• 17,000 executed• Louis XVI, Marie

Antoinette, Girondists, Robespeirre

• Lasted for 10 Months

• 1795 Directory established in France

Quiz

• Choose 4– First Estate– Second Estate– Third Estate– Louis XVI– Marie Antoinette– Maximilien

Robespierre

• Choose 1– What were the causes

of the French Revolution?

– What was the order of events in the French Revolution?

– What was the Reign of Terror and how did it end?

Napoleon’s Europe

Napoleon’s Europe

• Napoleon Bonaparte- Young General that rose to power in France as a result of the turmoil of the French Revolution.

• Admiral Horatio Nelson- trapped French ships and defeated Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.

• Coup De’tat- Forced takeover of a government• Plebiscite- Question before the voters• Continental System- Blockade of trade with Great Britain• Nationalism- Pride in your nation or nationality, sense of

identity

Napoleon’s Empire in 1812

• Napoleon put his relatives in positions of power throughout Europe

• Diminished feudal privileges, nobility, power of the Church

• Conscription into the armies of France

• Label your Map of 1812 using the map from page 612 in the text.

• Color in Napoleon’s Empire

Napoleon’s Fall• Czar Alexander I- Ruler of Russia during the reign of

Napoleon• Hundred Days- Period of time that Napoleon ruled France

after his exile to Elba.• Duke of Wellington- Led combined forces of British,

Belgian, Dutch, and German troops against France at the Battle of Waterloo.

• Prince Klemens von Metternich- Represented Austria at the negotiations at the Congress of Vienna.

• Charles Maurice de Tallyrand- Represented King Louis XVIII of France at the Congress of Vienna.

• Indemnity- A payment to other countries for debt and damages of the Napoleonic wars.

• Reactionary- Want conditions to return to a time of absolute monarchy.

• Label your Map using the Map on page 618 in your text.

Legacy of the Revolution

• Monarchs restored in Europe

• Common people could change the world

• Map of Europe redrawn

• Enlightenment ideas and Nationalism inspired Revolutions in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Quiz

• Choose 4– Czar Alexander I- – Hundred Days-– Duke of Wellington- – Prince Klemens von

Metternich- – Charles Maurice de

Tallyrand-– Indemnity- – Reactionary-

• Choose 1– How did Napoleon rise

to power?– What events caused

disaster and defeat for Napoleon?

– What did the Congress of Vienna achieve?

– What is the legacy of the French Revolution?