MOD World History TEST - FRENCH REV.

The old Regime:

outdated social system

List Three causes of the french revolution:

Corrupt Monarchy, Social classes, National debt

What were causes of Frances economic crisis?

Deficit spending, national debt, reform failures were causes of the …

Louis XVI

Former king of france

Estates General

legislative body of members from each estate.

had not been called for 175 yrs

The national assembly

third estates own government

declaration of the rights of man contained which slogan?

liberty, equality, fraternity.

why did national assemb control the church?

to pay off debt they sold church grounds

put the church under state control-forced bishops and priests to be elected

dissolved convents and monestaries

great fear

peasent crops being stolen spiraled out of control and peasents attacked nobles and burned their houses

2 july 1789

fear of plan to starve people caused a mob to attack joseph fullon and his step son

Jaques Necker

king louis financial advisor

faction

a group inside a group

sans-coulettes

pushed the revolution into radical action. means “without breeches”

sufferage

right to vote.

secular

non religous

secular calander tride to de-Christianize france

who was a role model for the moderates?

laffayette

emigres

fanned flames of opposition to the french revolution from abroad

who resisted declaration of rights of men?

louis xvi

why did revolutionaries want to abolish monarcy

to establish french republic

constitution of 1789 set up a ? monarchy

limited monarchy

1793 mass levy did what:

raise money for war

what did the convention create to deal with french threats?

comitte of pub. safety.

what happened in revolutionary france?

nationalism (love for country) replaces loyalty to rulers

jacobins

middle class lawyers

Napoleon

popular military hero

Marseilles- what song was made here?

port city- frances national anthem “la marseillaise”

plebsicle

popular vote by ballot

Napoleonic Code

napoleans most lasting reform-embodied enlightenment principles such as equality of all citizens before law.

Napoleonic wars:

a series of conflicts taken by napoleon.

Continental system:

closed european ports to block brittish goods.

Concert of Europe

organization who wanted to preserve the agreements set up by congress of vienna.

congress of vienna

a meeting of European nations that set out a strategy to maintain peace and stability throughout the continent

annex

to add to something larger