People of the French Revolution
She was a young Austrian archduchess who was pledged to marry into French royalty. She loved crazy hair, balls, dresses, gambling, and being popular. She became a symbol of everything the French Revolution hated.
This building housed gunpowder, was formerly a prison, and was the target of the first violent uprising of the third estate in the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
Document created by the National Assembly that outlined the equal freedoms that each man should have and be upheld by the government.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Name the difference between a civic and ethnic nation.
Civic: nation based on agreed upon laws (often multicultural - although this is not the focus)
Ethnic: nation based on shared heritage and ancestry (i.e. DNA, culture, language etc.)
"I'm going to increase taxes to stimulate the economy, call my nobles and peasants to go to war with that pesky neighbouring country, and chop off some heads just because I feel like it" ~some King somewhere
Identify a social studies concept we have learned that could apply to this.
-feudalism
- absolute monarchy
- divine right of kings
He led the French Revolution and his death is often credited as the death to end deaths/ended the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
What was the Estates General and the main issue with it?
- a meeting of representatives from all three estates (nobles, clergy, peasants)
- peasants only had one third of the vote but made up 97% of the population. They were always outvoted by the rich and privileged clergy and noble classes.
A documented agreement by Napoleon's council and the Pope that reinstates the Catholic Church back into France after the downfall of Maximilien Robespierre and his Cult of the Supreme Being
What is La Concordat?
Identify the kind of nationalism that this perspective conveys:
"We are the best country in the world. The only use other countries have is to serve the needs of my country. War is a great option if other countries do not get in line"
What is ultranationalism?
Which of the following perspectives shows a virtuous citizen who reflects Robespierre's concept of "The Republic of Virtue"
Speaker One: "Long live the Revolution! All traitors must die, and I too will kill them!"
Speaker Two: "Long live the Revolution! The hierarchy must agree to our terms but we have many avenues to persuade them"
Speaker Three: "The Revolution is wonderful! But I will live in my house to stay out of trouble"
Speaker Four: "I am a passionate Girondin! We must let the Revolution live!"
Speaker One is the best example of the Republic of Virtue
Who are "the fishwomen"/"poisarden"?
Who are they: The National Assembly
Where did they go: A nearby Tennis Court where they swore the Tennis Court Oath
A philosophical/academic era that believed in reason above all else. This era led to an understanding of human nature as rational and that all men deserve free will. Later, this inspired French Revolutionists, the idea of democracy, and an increased interest in science and literacy.
What is the Enlightenment?
A loyalty to something else that comes into conflict with nationalist loyalties. Examples are: Regional loyalty, cultural loyalty, environmental/animal rights loyalty, religious loyalty.
What are non-nationalist loyalties?
Which source best demonstrates reasonable accommodation?
1. A bunch of Quebecois Francophone students travel to Alberta for an exchange program to learn English
2. The Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen allows all people to have equality
3. Calgary Board of Education schools allow Sikh students to carry religious knife/kirpan.
4. Marie Antoinette accommodates her guests in the Versailles palace by setting them up in beautiful rooms.
3 is the correct answer.
This king was responsible for losing the Seven Year's war and bankrupting France. His mismanagement of the country is one of the causes of rising rebellion and the French Revolution. This king preceded his son who ended up being beheaded during the Revolution.
Who is King Louis the 15th?
In what ways did Napoleon not uphold the ideals of the French Revolution (i.e. equality, freedom, abolishment of hierarchy etc.)?
- he created lots of new aristocrats
This was the philosophical movement of the Renaissance. Rather than God and the King being the center of the universe/the highest importance, all of humankind became the center of the universe.
What is humanism?
The political counterpart of manorialism. A system of government that is triangular and hierarchical. This is where king rules over nobles, barons, and peasants.
What is feudalism?
This quote displays what social studies concept?
"We are confident that Scotland would be effective and has every human and natural resource to be an independent nation state"
a. sovereignty
b. national self-determination
c. referendum
d. revolutionary ideas
B. National Self-determination
He was someone who once lived in the gutters of France. He had horrible skin infections and out of his bitterness towards the world he wrote inflammatory rhetoric. His articles were the cause of thousands of deaths as people rallied to chop off more heads for the Revolution. He was later assassinated by Charlotte Corday.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
This term was popularized during the French Revolution to refer to all hated hierarchical systems, policies, eras, and culture before the revolution began.
What is the Ancien Regime?
What is the Age of Absolutism?
What is the guiding question of the overall unit? Hint: it starts with "Should nation be the..."
"Should nation be the foundation of identity?"
Two people are having an argument. What social studies concept does the argument (both quotes taken together) exemplify?
"Canada needs you to support the carbon tax. This is for the future of our entire nation and all generations that inherit the land we live on"
"Alberta wants to support the carbon tax but the government must realize that our lives depend on the economic pillar of the oil industry. My family wouldn't eat if my job was cut due to oil companies paying off the carbon tax"
Contending Nationalist Loyalties