Quickwrite

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Quickwrite

• Take out your retrieval chart
• Get a laptop and log in. Open the French
  Revolution PowerPoint on my website. While it is
  loading. . . Begin the assignment below.
• Read Pgs. 166-168 in your text and explain the
  causes of the French Revolution.

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Colour of the Bourbons(royal)
Fraternity
Equality
Liberty
Colour of Paris
The Tricolour
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Ideas
The Right to elect representatives to govt
bodies
Born equal
Freedom of worship
Free trade
The Right to live
LIBERTY
EQUALITY
Ideas of Enlightenment 18th Century
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The Enlightenment
Ideas
Montesquieu
Locke
Rousseau
Voltaire
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Locke
Ideas
Government by consent of people
A contract between govt people
If govt breaks contract
The right to rebel
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Ideas
Legislative
Check
Separation of Power
Executive
Montesquieu
Balance
Judicial
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Influence of the Enlightenment
Ideas

• It prepared the ground for change - a revolution
  in the minds of the people

Government by consent of the people
Government by Divine Right
17th century
18th century
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Please take out your homework and Revolution
retrieval chart.
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Government Before the Revolution

• King Louis XVI was an absolute monarch.

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Problems- Social, Economic, Political, Natural or
Religious

• Absolute Monarchy - Rule by Divine Right
• A weak king(Louis XVI) - indecisive, influenced
  by others(Queen Marie Antoinette)
• Little understanding of the condition of the
  people
• Empty treasury (too much spending, not enough
  taxing of 1st and 2nd Estates)
• Failure in wars and heavy cost of wars (Am. Rev.)
• Luxury of the court
• System of unequal taxation

Political Discontents
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Social and Economic Discontents of the French
Revolution

• Social inequality

Privileges Restrictions
The Second Estate The Nobility
The First Estate The Clergy
97 The Third Estate Common People (the middle
class4, the workers8, the peasants85)
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Class Inequality
Social and Economic Discontents
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From the diary of the English writer Arthur
Young, on his travel through France, July 1789.

• Walking up a long hill. I was joined by a poor
  woman who complained of the times and that it was
  a sad country she said her husband had only a
  small amount of land, one cow and a poor little
  horse, yet they hadvery heavy tailles, other
  taxes and dues. She had seven children, and This
  woman, at no great distance might have been taken
  for 60 or 70, her figure was so bent and her face
  so hardened by labour -

but she said she was only 28.
1. To which social group did this old woman
belong? 2. What kind of suffering was she
complaining about?
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The chained man represents the Third Estate. To
which social group of that estate does he belong?
What clues does the cartoonist use to make the
suggestion? What do the other three people
represent? What helps you think so? Do you think
that the cartoon has reflected fully the problem
of social inequality in France before the French
revolution?
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What problems are discussed in this clip?
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Compare the lives of people portrayed in the
slides. How might they have contributed to
revolution in France?
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Who Might Have Written this Poem? Explain.

• "Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translateAnd
  canonise as MartyrsThe guillotine on Peers
  shall waitAnd Knights shall hang in
  garters.Those Despots long have trod us
  down,And judges are their enginesSuch wretched
  minions of a CrownDemand the People's
  vengeance!Today tis theirs. Tomorrow weShall
  don the Cap of Libertie!"

• Who is the intended audience of this poem?
• Which words show the emotion of the author?

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What do you think is happening in this slide? Who
are the participants? What sounds do you think
you might hear if you were there?
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What is this scene? Describe one character from
the scene!
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Names and characteristics of the people involved.
There are video clips Behind Louis and Robe
Robespierre-Emotional Leader
Louis XVI- Incompetent
Jaque Necker- Financial Guru
General Lafayette- Military leader
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Dramatic Events- Actions or Violence
March on Versailles
Estates General Called
Tennis Court Oath
Assault on the Bastille
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What is the humor in these comics?
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New Governments Formed

• The 3rd Estate forms a National Assembly and asks
  the 1st and 2nd Estates to help them write a
  constitution.
• They form a representative government (but it
  doesnt last long).
• Limited Monarchy- LouisXVI (he doesnt last long).

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Documents and Importance

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
  (gives French individual rights).
• Constitution of 1791- Forms a limited monarchy, a
  legislative branch (, war), and protects
  property and trade.

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Events Influence on Individual Liberty and
Self-Government

• Influences- Men are equal before the law.
• All men born free have equal rights.
• Protection of liberty, property and security.
• Government exists to protect rights.
• Equal rights to holders of public office- based
  on talent rather than birth.

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Similarities/Differences

• Watch a brief summary of the revolution.
  (picture)
• How is the French Revolution similar and
  different from the Glorious and American
  Revolutions?????