Ch 23-1
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BEGINS
23.1-The French Revolution Begins.pdfGroup Discussions
What event or events signified the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of Representative governments? Explain your answer.
Analyzing causes recognizing effects: Why did the people of the Third Estate Revolt? Think about who paid taxes, food supplies, and political power.
Forming and supporting opinions: Do you think the causes of the French Revolution were more economic or political in nature? Explain your answers.
Standards:
I-C.3 Explain and analyze revolutions (e.g., democratic, scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions.
Objective:
List the three Estates of the old regime.
Summarize the factors that led to the French Revolution.
Describe the creation of the National Assembly and the storming of the Bastille.
Explain the importance of the great fear and the women's march on Versailles.
WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading
EQ: What event or events signified the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of representative government? Explain your answer.
The old order
The privilege Estates
The third Estate
French Revolution - Estates General, Tennis Court Oath and National Assembly
The forces of change
Enlightenment ideas
A weak leader
The French Revolution
Dawn of the revolution
The National Assembly
Storming of the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille
A great fear sweeps France
A contemporary print depicts the storming of the Bastille in 1789. The deeds of common people working in crowds became a favorite theme of artists after the outbreak of the French revolution.
Liberty, personified as a woman, leads the French people in a famous painting by Eugène Delacroix.
Parisian women were the leaders of the crowd that marched to Versailles, protested high food prices, and forced the king and queen to return to Paris in October 1789. Although women in France would have to wait until the twentieth century for political rights fully equal to those of men, women laid a foundation for future gains by drawing on the ideas of the Enlightenment to argue for equality.
The French Revolution
Vocabulary
Old Regime
French system of feudalism, 3 estates
estate
Pre-French Revolution social classes of people
Louis XVI
weak king who came to French throne in 1774
Marie Antoinette
unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI
Estates-General
Assembly of representatives from all three estates
national assembly
French congress established by representatives of the third estate
tennis court oath
promise made by third estate of French representatives to draw up a new constitution
great fear
wave of panic
Critical Thinking
1a What did the clergy do for society that might justify their low tax rate?
1b How was the bourgeoisie unlike the other groups within the Third Estate?
2a Did Frances system of Estates violate the principles of equality?
2b Which group within the Third Estate would suffer the most from the increase in the price of bread?
2c Why do you think Louis chose to raise taxes on the nobility?
3a Why did nobles expect each estate to have one vote?
3b What result would show the National Assembly was a legitimate government?
4a After years of Oppression, what finally caused the French people to revolt?
4b Do you think that the riots were justified?
The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29