Download Revolution Brings Reform and Terror

September 14, 2010
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4.
What happened on July 14, 1789?
Who arrested the king?
What was the tennis court oath?
How long did it take the French to write
their constitution?
5. What political group was formed by the
Third Estate?
The End of the Monarchy
10.2.4
Ch. 7.2
Pgs. 222-227
Background
• Due to the Great Fear:
– Nobles, Clergy meet
with the National
Assembly:
• Made of members of the
old 3rd estate.
– Form a new govt.
– Declare all men
EQUAL.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
and the Citizen
• 1789
– Copied from US
Declaration of
Independence
• Freedom of:
– speech
– religion
– equal rights etc.
• DOES ADDRESS
WOMEN
State-Controlled Church
• All Church land sold
– Pay off France’s debt to
other Euro nations
– Church now a part of the
state
– Pope loses power to
government
• **Peasants, who are
devout Catholics,
offended**
– Begin to oppose reforms of
National Assembly
– Largest segment of
population
Constitutional Monarchy
•
1791
– Limited Constitutional
Monarchy
•
Legislative Assembly
– Like Parliament, can:
» Create laws, declare
war etc.
•
King has little authority
– Power to enforce laws
Louis XVI
Old Problems Plague Govt.
•
Govt. debt, food
shortages still problem
– Cause the formation of
3 groups w/in
Assembly:
1. Radicals (Jacobins):
» lots of change, no king
» AKA Left
2. Moderates:
» small changes
» AKA Center
3. Conservatives:
» don’t change anything!
We like the king.
» AKA Right
War
• Austria and Prussia
demand Louis XVI be
returned to throne
Prussia
– Fear revolution would
spread
– April 1792
• France declares war April
Prussian forces march
toward Paris
– Fear Louis XVI will return to
throne
France
Louis XVI is Executed
• Aug. 1792
– 20,000 citizens storm
Kings palace
• Imprison royal family
• Later executed by radical
Jacobins!
– Now Louis XVI can’t return
to throne
– No monarch
• Need a new constitution
Political Cartoon
• Describe how the
three Estate’s are
represented in the
political cartoon.
• Use references
from your notes to
support your ideas.
• 1 paragraph for
Second
each of the
Estate
Estate’s.
First
Estate
Third
Estate