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Ms. Avar
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Population in France
French
Revolution
Notes
Full Name:_________________
Period #:___________________
Today’s Date:_______________
Assignment #:_______________
Old RegimeFirst _________ - The _______ or the Clergy
______ % of population ,owned _______ of
land, paid little taxes
________ Estate- The _______ or the Lords
2 % of the population owned 25 % of land, paid
__________
Third Estate-Bourgeoisie or _______ Class,
Peasants, Workers and Serfs
__________ of the population, owned 40 % land,
paid _______ taxes (half of their __________!)
_____________________________ May _________
France is in __________. Nobles demand a meeting of the __________ . King Louis XVI
calls an assembly of the three estates to solve ______________ of France. In the Estates
General each estate had ______________ (vote by ____________).
__________________ Oath ________ 20,1789
At the Versailles ______________ the_______ estate declares ________________________
– the National Assembly. They pledge to write a new____________________.
Storming of the _______________ July ______, 1789
Hundreds of ____________people in Paris stormed the ______________, a medieval fort and
_____________, to search for ______________ , signaling the start of the _______________.
Peasants everywhere ____________.
March to ________________, October 1789
After months of ____________shortages seven thousand women march 12 miles from Paris to
Versailles to demand _______. Marie Antoinette is rumored to have said
“_________ _______________!” The King and Queen are ___________________ Versailles.
________________________________ 1789-________
The new government called the National Assembly created the ________________________
that guaranteed _______ and_________ and freedoms. They couldn’t solve any ___________
problems because they were involved in _______ and had too many political divisions. A
limited ______________ was created with a ________________ in 1791.
The __________________________________
This was the first step in writing a ______________. It was modeled after the American
_________________________(written 13 years earlier) and the __________Bill of Rights. Its
goals are reflected in the slogan of the French Revolution: “Liberty, ________, and Fraternity”
Assembly Begins to Fall Apart
Assembly Weakened by …
- _____________ Problems
- ______________
- Political ______________
RADICAL
LIBERAL MODERATE
End the
Republic, King is a
Monarchy& - King as - figurehead with ____________ _________ ______________
(Jacobins)
THIRD ESTATE
CONSERVATIVE REACTIONARY
King has ______________
powers
(limited monarchy)
Restore the ______________
FIRST & SECOND ESTATES
Reign of ______________
Maximilien ______________ and other __________ , the Jacobins, ______________
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. These radicals took control of the ______________ and
created a new legislative body called the ______________.
A committee of ____________________was created to deal with the threats to France. Forty
Thousand French people in two years were ______________ by ______________.
The __________________ turned on their leaders and __________ Robespierre in July 1794.
The Reign of Terror ends when a _______________________ creates a new ______________
and created a _____________________________to run the country
__________________ 1799-_______
Napoleon ______________ the directory and rules France as dictator and ___________ for
_____________.