Causes of French Rev
These wars caused massive French debt:
7 Years War & American Revolutionary War
At the Tennis Court Oath, the 3rd estates demanded what be created?
A constituion
Name one positive reform under Napoleon.
Meritocracy, educational system (lycées), Concordat of 1801, Napoleonic Code,
What product launched the 1st Industrial Revolution?
Textiles, cloth,
The French Revolution was meant to take down this type of political system / ideology
Absolutism
When they wrote the Constitution of 1791, what type of government did they have?
A constitutional monarchy
Name one Napoleonic reform that took away people's rights.
Secret police, censorship, limitation of women's rights
What was the name of the representative governmental body that Louis reluctantly called together to deal with the debt crisis
Estates General
This document laid out goals for the revolution.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Name one "ism" created by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era
Nationalism, liberlism
Who was the king of France during the French Revolution
Louis XVI
This document made priests sign oaths of allegiance to The Revolution
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
This coalition of defeated European powers attempted to restore the balance of power & contain revolutions
Congress of Vienna
What year did the French Revolution start
1789
What ended the hopes of a Constitutional Monarchy?
When the king and queen fled
Romanticism's emphasis on emotion rather than reason was a challenge to this intellectual movement:
The Enlightenment