5. 2. Summarize factors that led up to the French
Revolution
Enlightenment ideas
Economic woes
Weak leadership
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11. 1. In general, how do the paintings differ in their portrayal?
2. Why would the first painting fuel sentiments against the
queen?
3. Why didn’t the second painting calm that anger?
4. Would the French Revolution have happened if there was no
Marie Antoinette?
12. “The National Assembly, considering that it has been
summoned to establish the constitution of the kingdom, to
effect the regeneration of public order, and to maintain the
true principles of monarchy; that nothing can prevent it
from continuing its deliberations in whatever place it may
be forced to establish itself; and finally, that wheresoever
its members are assembled, there is the National
Assembly.
Decrees that all members of this Assembly shall
immediately take a solemn oath not to separate, and to
reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the
constitution of the kingdom is established and
consolidated upon firm foundations; and that, the said
oath taken, all members and each one of them individually
shall ratify this steadfast resolution by signature.”
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14. 3. Describe the creation of the National
Assembly and the storming of the Bastille
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20. 4. Explain the importance of the Great Fear and
the women’s march on Versailles.
31. Why do people
obey Government?
Respect
Self-interest
32. Why do people
obey Government?
Fear
Respect
Self-interest
33. 1. Explain how the National Assembly changed
France’s government
Rights of Man & Citizen
Olympe de Gouges’ Declaration of the
Rights of Women
State-controlled church
Louis XVI . . .
34. 2. Summarize the positions of the three factions
that tried to govern France in the Legislative
Assembly:
Radicals
Moderates
Conservatives
and where did they sit?
Who were the Emigres and the sans-culottes?
35. 3. Explain how war and the king’s execution
affected the Revolution
September Massacres
Legislative Assembly → National
Convention
the Jacobins
Who did France fight?
36. 4. Describe the events and the aftermath of the
Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
“Committee for Public Safety”
Napoleon Bonaparte
40. 2. Summarize how
Napoleon restored order
in France
1800, plebiscite
Fixes economy
Ends corruption
Restores the Church
Creates the
Napoleonic Code
Crowns self Emperor
Napoleon, 1801
41. Provision One:
A father can veto his son’s marriage until age 26 and that of his daughter until
age 21.
Provision Two:
There can be no worker organizations (ie unions). An employer’s word was to
be taken over that of his employee.
Provision Three:
Adoption is not permitted except to those above the age of fifty and who at the
period of adoption have no children.
Provision Four:
A married couple jointly owns all the wealth the two accumulate during their
marriage, and in case of divorce, they must divide it equally.
Provision Five:
Landowner’s children had to share equally in the inheritance.
Provision Six:
If a child has not commenced his 16th year, the father may imprison his child for
up to six months.
42. • The Napoleonic Code was the first modern legal system that applied to
everyone.
• Enacted on March 21, 1804 the Civil Code of France marked the first major
revision and reorganization of laws since the Roman era.
• Before the Napoleonic Code, a confusion of customary, feudal, royal,
revolutionary, church and Roman laws existed.
• The Civil Code eliminated feudal and royal privileges in favor of all citizens’
equality before the law.
• The Code mainly addressed issues relating to property and families.
• It also included some rights such as freedom of speech and worship along with
public trial by jury.
• The code preserved most social aims of the revolution and helped France turn
away from the past.
• The Code made the wife inferior to her husband. “The husband owes
protection to his wife, and the wife owes obedience to her husband.”
• Countries of modern Europe with the exception of Great Britain, Ireland,
Russia and Scandinavia base their civil law systems on the Napoleonic Code
• What state in the USA bases their legal system on the Napoleonic Code?
43. 3. Describe the extent and weaknesses of Napoleon’s
empire
Revolt in Haiti
Sale of Louisiana Territory
Expands in Europe
Battle of Trafalgar
45. 1. Explain Napoleon’s tactical and political
mistakes
Continental System & blockade
The Peninsular War & guerillas
1812 invasion of Russia
46. 2. Summarize Napoleon’s defeat, comeback, and
final downfall
April 1814, surrender
Louis XVII became king
Napoleon escapes Elba, raises an army
Defeated at Waterloo by Duke Wellington
exiled to St Helena
48. 1. List the results of the Congress of Vienna
Contain France
Establish a Balance of Power
Restore legitimacy
49. 2. Show how the ideas of the French Revolution
continued to influence people
Conservatives in power; people liberal
Revolutions in Latin America
Spread of nationalism