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The French Revolution Chapter 7 Slide 2 The Estates 1 st Clergy 2 nd Nobility 3 rd - Everyone else Bourgeoisie Urban poor Peasants Slide 3 Why was the 3 rd estate unhappy? High taxes Little political power Few social rights/priviledges Slide 4 Calling of the Estates General May 5, 1789 Hadnt met in 175 years Original problem: solve debt crisis Louis answer: tax the nobility 2 nd Estate demands a meeting Slide 5 Slide 6 Actions of the 3 rd Estate Goal: Overhaul the govt June 17 National Assembly Tennis Court Oath 1 st and 2 nd Estate reaction Louis reaction Slide 7 Storming of the Bastille July 14 Slide 8 Slide 9 August, 1789 End of Old Regime Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Slide 10 Womens March on Versailles Oct. 1789 Great Fear Bread whats the big deal? Demands & achievements Slide 11 Assembly Reforms State-controlled Church 1791 Louis approves constitution Limited Constitutional Monarchy Legislative Assembly Factions within Slide 12 Chaos migrs & sans-culottes Pressure from other monarchs War with Austria & Prussia September Massacres (1792) National Convention forms Reduces monarch power to nothing Slide 13 Reign of Terror 1793-94 Jacobins Louis tried treason and killed by guillotine Maximilien Robespierre Committee of Public Safety Reign of Terror The first maxim of our politics ourght to be to lead the people by means of reason and the enemies of the people by terror. Slide 14 End of the Terror July 28, 1794 - Robespierre executed by guillotine Peoples reactions New govt (again!) Two-house legislature Five member executive (Directory) Napoleon Bonaparte begins rise in military Slide 15 Napoleon Bonaparte Birth (1769) & childhood - Corsica Slide 16 Rise to Power 1799 - coup d'tat (know this!!) First consul 1800 - Real power resulted from plebiscite 1804 Crowned emperor Slide 17 Domestic Issues: the Good & Bad Economy Rid govt of corruption Merit-based system Napoleonic Code (organization) Napoleonic Code Took away rights Restored slavery in Caribbean Slide 18 Foreign Conquests 1807-12 Slide 19 Costly Mistakes Continental system British response Peninsular War v. Spanish guerrillas Invasion of Russia Scorched-earth policy Casualities Slide 20 End of Napoleon 1814 Surrender to powers of Europe Elba 1815 Hundred Days Waterloo 2 nd and final exile Slide 21 Slide 22 Congress of Vienna Great Power Austria, Britain, Russia, Prussia, France Containment of France Balance of Power Legitimacy (to rule)