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Chapter 6: The French Revolution
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Social Studies
9th Grade
11/02/2011

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What did philosophes target?
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Church for reform, idleness of clergy, Church interference for politics, intolerance of dissent.
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What were the three social classes?
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The clergy, nobles and the third estate.
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What happened to the nobles during the revolution?
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Were in a pinch because they had little income and prices of things around them were rising, had a hard time trying to maintain their statuses: feared losing their privileges, like not having to pay taxes
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Who were in the bourgeoisie?
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prosperous bankers, merchants, and manufacturers: officials who staffed royal bureaucracy, etc.
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Who is Jaques Necker?
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financial wizard that Louis the 16th chose as his advisor: had good ideas, wanted to tax first and second class but those ppl didn't like it and forced Necker to leave.
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What are Cahiers?
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notebooks listing the three estates grievances: many wanted reforms
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The Great Fear
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rumors that villages and towns were being attacked by troops (government)
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Declaration of the rights of man
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gov. exists to protect the right of the ppl; all male citizens equal before the law; freedom of religion and taxes according to how much you can afford; "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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Civil Constitution
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ended papal authority over the French Church and dissolved convents and monasteries: bishops and priests refused to accept it
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Constitution of 1791
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limited monarchy in place of absolute monarchy: new legislative assembly: power to make laws, collect taxes, and decide on issues of war and peace
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emigres
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nobles, clergy, and others who had fled France
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Declaration of Pilnitz
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Marie Antionette's brother: monarch would threaten to intervene to protect Marie and Louis's throne: France saw it as an act of war
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sans cullotes
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working class men and woman who pushed the revolution into more radical action
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robespierre
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like Rousseau's ideas (ppl naturally good and corrupted by their rulers): religious toleration and wanted to demolish slavery: popular among sans culottes
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secular
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nonreligious
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Battle of Waterloo
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June 18, 1815: in town of Waterloo, Belgium France and Prussia fought France, and Napoleon lost -> downfall of Napoleon because he was forced to abdicate and was exiled to St Helena in the SOuth Atlantic, did not return like last time
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Congress of Vienna
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agreement to establish balance of power and protect the system of monarchy between all the countries: ringed France with strong countries around it
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Quadruple Alliance
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Britain, Russia, Prussia, Austria agreed to use their power to maintain balance of power and suppress revolutionary uprisings
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