Download Reading #1: Old Regime Phase The French Revolution (Red Book

Reading #1: Old Regime Phase
The French Revolution (Red Book)
Toward a New Political Order: The French Revolution Begins
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #1:
1. Who made up the First Estate and what were two of their privileges?
2. Who made up the Second Estate and what were two of their privileges?
Reading #1: Graphic Organizer #1: Background to the French Revolution (630)
Topic: Long term problems: Social Structure: Extreme Inequality of the 3 estates
1st Estate (Clergy) & Privileges
2nd Estate (Nobility) & Privileges
1. Who made up the First Estate and what were two of their privileges?
2. Who made up the Second Estate and what were two of their privileges?
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #2:
3. What groups made up the Third Estate and what were two complaints they had about French
Society?
Reading #1: Graphic Organizer #2: Background to the French Revolution
(630 – 632)
Topic: Long term problems: Social Structure: Problem of the 3rd Estate
Problems for the
Problems for Skilled
Problems for the
Peasants
workers
bourgeoisie
3. What groups made up the Third Estate and what were two complaints they had about French
Society?
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #3:
4. Describe two causes of the French Revolution.
5. What was the Estates General and why did Louis XVI call them together in 1789?
Reading #1: Graphic Organizer #3: Immediate Causes of the Revolution (632)
Topic: Immediate Problems: Social & Economic Causes
Periodic Crises
Government Spending
Louis XVI call of “Estates
General”
4. Describe two causes of the French Revolution.
5. What was the Estates General and why did Louis XVI call them together in 1789?
Reading #2: Transfer of Power Phase
The French Revolution (Red Book)
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #1:
1. What change in the Estates General did the Third Estate demand and why did it create the
National Assembly?
2. What was the Bastille and why did members of the Third Estate attack it on July 14, 1789?
Reading #2: Graphic Organizer #1: Destruction of the Old Regime (632 )
Topic: The 3rd Estate Rebels
3rd Estate demands . . .
3rd Estate’s National
Assembly
Storming the Bastille and
provincial rebellions
1. What change in the Estates General did the Third Estate demand and why did it create the
National Assembly?
2. What was the Bastille and why did members of the Third Estate attack it on July 14, 1789?
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #2:
1. Describe three changes made by the National Assembly to remedy (fix) France’s problems.
2. What was the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen and explain three rights it
guaranteed.
Reading #2: Graphic Organizer #2: Destruction of the Old Regime (632 – 637)
Topic: Acts of the National Assembly
Abolish
feudalism
Declare Rights of
Man & Citizen
Women & Louis
XVI
Reform of
Church
New troubles
within & without
3. Describe three changes made by the National Assembly to remedy (fix) France’s problems.
4. What was the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen and explain three rights it guaranteed.
Reading #3: Moderates & Extremists struggle
The French Revolution
From Radical Revolution to the Age of Napoleon
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #1:
1. What were two problems created by the execution of King Louis XVI?
2. What was the role of the Committee of Public Safety?
Reading #3: Graphic Organizer #1: Moderates & Extremists struggle (638 - 639)
Topic: Extremists take Control of government
Members of the
National Conv.
Abolish
Monarchy
Peasants upset
Foreign Crisis
1. What were two problems created by the execution of King Louis XVI?
2. What was the role of the Committee of Public Safety?
Robespierre &
his Committee
Reading #4: Reign of Terror
The French Revolution (Red Book)
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #1:
1. Why did France create a huge army during its revolution and how was it different from previous
armies?
2. What was the Reign of Terror and what were its goals?
3. What is a “coup d’etat” and what was the result of France’s coup d’etat?
Reading #4: Graphic Organizer #1: Reign of Terror (639 – 640)
Topic: Committee of Public Safety mobilizes all of France and terrorizes its own people
French Revolutionary
Army
Reign of Terror turns on
internal enemies
Moderates return
Answer Guiding Questions on the following page.
Corruption leads to a
coup d’etat
1. Why did France create a huge army during its revolution and how was it different from
previous armies?
2. What was the Reign of Terror and what were its goals?
3. What is a “coup d’etat” and what was the result of France’s coup d’etat?
Reading #5: The Return to Order
The French Revolution (Red Book)
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #1:
1. Describe how Napoleon came to power and point out three changes Napoleon made.
2. What areas did Napoleon conquer and how was he able to be so successful militarily.
Reading #5: Graphic Organizer #1: The Age of Napoleon (640 – 643)
Topic: Napoleon restores order but becomes dictator
Rise to Power
Restoring Order – Catholic
Church, Napoleonic Code,
Centralized Govt. & Equality
European Empire
1. Describe how Napoleon came to power and point out three changes Napoleon made.
2. What areas did Napoleon conquer and how was he able to be so successful militarily.
Reading #5: The Return to Order
The French Revolution (Red Book)
Guiding Questions for Graphic Organizer #2:
1. What was the Continental System and why did Napoleon create it?
2. Why did Napoleon invade Russia and why was his invasion unsuccessful?
3. What nations allied to defeat Napoleon and to where did they ultimately exile him?
Reading #5: Graphic Organizer #2: Decline & Fall of Napoleon (643)
Topic: Decline & Fall of Napoleon
Conquering
British Navy
Continental
System
Nations resist
Invading Russia
(Answer guiding questions on the following page.)
Exile, return &
Waterloo
1. What was the Continental System and why did Napoleon create it?
2. Why did Napoleon invade Russia and why was his invasion unsuccessful
3. What nations allied to defeat Napoleon and to where did they ultimately exile him?