French Revolution and Quiz #7 study guide!

Student Learning Objective- Students will explain the causes and effects of the French Revolution.

World Regions and Cultures 11- Western Europe- Scenario

Directions: After finishing the quiz, react to this scenario before the discussion- You are somewhere in Europe in the year 1789.  Assume every single person in this room is lower class (poor).  90-95% of your country and all the family and friends you associate with are poor.  Read each situation and decide how you would feel or what you would do

1.       It is impossible to change your social status.  You are born into the social class and will always be there.

2.       Nobles (5% of population) live a luxurious life

3.       Your leader is an absolute monarch (king or queen with all power), who lives a luxurious life

4.       Your monarch taxes you heavily to:

A)      support his luxury

B)      pay for massive wars of expansion he is leading

C)      Industries he is setting up (Industrialization)

D)      Expanding overseas trade

E)      Establishing colonies in other parts of the world (who sees the profit?)

5.       Diseases run rampant in your village/town/city

6.       Education for children or anyone else is poor

7.       Teachers are volunteers

8.       The government never fixes your town up, crime enforcement is poor

9.       The Roman Catholic Church owns half of your country’s land, and you cannot touch that extra land

10.    You must be Roman Catholic in your religious beliefs

11.    You feel that your leader does not care about you because of all this, but he feels his right to rule comes from God

12.    The king picks who joins the army and navy (drafts are common)

World Regions and Cultures 11- Western Europe- French Revolution

Directions: Use “Our World” textbook

1)       What kind of revolution is the French Revolution?  Why? (pg 22) ______________- overthrowing their own people who ruled them unfairly

2)       Who was held responsible for unfair taxation and poor treatment of middle and lower-class people? (348) King ______________XVI and Marie Antoinette

3)       What are the long-range causes of the French Revolution?

A.      Political Causes- (348)

Power ______________

B.      Economic Causes- (349)

unfair ______________

C.      Social Causes- (349)

church owned 1/2 the land
nobles lived life of luxury
Working class stuck in poverty

4)       What were the social classes in France in 1789? (349)

1. 1^st Estate- Clergy (______________)
2. 2^nd Estate- ______________
3. 3^rd Estate- Peasants (90%+)

5)       How did the French Revolution start?

A.      ______________Court Oath (349)

a. The people vowed to not disband until a ______________was written

b. The King was desperate for ______________so he recognized the National Assembly

B.      The storming of the ______________- (What happened?) (349) July 14, 1789- Revolutionaries stormed a fortress and prison- apparently found no weaponry but the revolution was on!

6)       What happened during the French Revolution (1789-1799)?  What was accomplished?

1. Phase 1, 1789-1792- The National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.  Explain these rights. (350-351) "liberty, equality, fraternity" and "men are born free and remain free and equal in rights"

2. Phase 2, 1792-1794- What radicals took power? (351) "Reign of ______________"

How did they kill many people? ______________

3. Phase 3, 1795-1799- A weak and ineffective 5-man government called the  Directory took power (351)

7)       Who took power after the French Revolution via a coup d’état? (351) ______________Bonaparte

8)       What was Napoleon’s strategic error? (352) stuck in Russia in winter

9)       Where and when was he defeated? (352) ______________1815

10)   Who took power after Napoleon Bonaparte? (352) ______________XVIII

11)   Name 2 good things that Napoleon established. (352) Established freedom of religion and ended persecution of Jews

12)   Explain how vast Napoleon’s empire was? (map 353) Most of Europe, almost as big as the Roman Empire

13)   Critical Thinking- Was the French Revolution a failure?  Why or why not?

14)   Critical Thinking- What has the French Revolution proved to man-kind?

Vocab:

Louis XIV: (Global Mosaic pg 664) Set up life of luxury for nobles

Louis XVI: (Our World pg 349) Was executed during French Rev

Marie Antoinette: (Our World pg 351) Was executed during French Rev

Bourgeoisie: (Our World pg 349) French ______________class which had been abused

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