Causes and Outcomes of the 1789 Revolution
These two bodies made up the Ancien Regime in France for hundreds of years prior to the Revolution.
What are the Monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church?
This group was the primary revolutionary group, although they were also considered the most radical.
Who are the Jacobins?
A new constitution was established in 1795, giving power to this new representative government.
What is the Directory?
This governing body was created after the fall of the Directory in 1799.
What is the Consulate?
This revolution was considered necessary for the Industrial Revolution, but occurred in the one hundred years prior to it.
What is the agricultural revolution?
This intellectual movement forced people to start thinking critically about their government and social power structures.
What is the Enlightenment?
Counter-revolutionary groups (groups who supported the monarchy) typically failed because of this primary reason.
What is a lack of central leadership?
The Directory faced more than one coup during its time in power, primarily due to this failure, exemplified by their ignoring election results, increasing censorship, and arresting political opponents.
What is a tightening of control?
Napoleon's ruling style was considered authoritarian; exemplified when he named himself this title in the Consulate.
What is First Consul?
This new agricultural practice was employed in the agricultural revolution to prevent fields from lying fallow (unused).
What is the crop rotation system?
This "governing" body was called for the first time in over one hundred years to address the financial crisis that France was in in 1789.
What is the Estates General?
Reform of taxation, local government, justice, and the role and power of the Church.
What are the aims of revolutionary groups?
This coup, led in part by Napoleon, removed the Directory from power.
What is the Coup of 1799?
In contradiction to the work of the French Revolution, Napoleon inaugurated himself as this ruler in 1804.
What is an emperor?
This system was critical for Britain to be able to support commerce and production within its own borders.
What is overseas trade?
The summer of 1789 was riddled with violence, massive government upheaval, and the creation of this new representative government; created after swearing an oath in a tennis court.
What is the National Assembly?
This attempt at fleeing signaled to hopeful revolutionaries that King Louis XVI was not willing to give up his power as a monarch.
What is the Flight to Varennes?
This is considered one of the primary successes of the Directory while they were in power.
What is the creation of a fair taxation system?
This legal code brought order and efficiency to France's government; chiefly by eliminating all laws prior to 1804 and creating one legal code for all of France.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This invention drastically increased the speed of the weaving process (turning thread into fabric).
What is the flying shuttle?
This document, created by the National Assembly, is considered the French equivalent of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Maximilien Robespierre led this event that would mark the French Revolution as a bloody affair where all aristocrats were subject to death by guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon's success in this area made him a prime candidate for governing France.
What is the military?
Napoleon believed that the future of France laid in the education of this male age group.
What is secondary (ages 10 thru 16)?
The development of this machine would eventually increase the process of turning cotton and/or wool into thread by 120 times.
What is the spinning jenny?