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Warm-up

Warm-up. Create a timeline for the American Revolution (1765-1783). Star the events you feel are important turning points. Crash Course. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw What does the Seven Years War have to do with the American Revolution?

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Warm-up

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  1. Warm-up Create a timeline for the American Revolution (1765-1783). Star the events you feel are important turning points.

  2. Crash Course http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw What does the Seven Years War have to do with the American Revolution? Why was American government so different from the rest of the world? Though everyone was not legally equal, how did the mindset in America change after the Revolution? What did the American Revolution most strongly influence?

  3. The French Revolution

  4. Intro Where: France When: 1789-1799 What: uprising to change old ways Who: lower classes vs. upper classes

  5. Conditions in France Ancien Regime, or Old Order King First Estate Second Estate Third Estate (+ bourgeoisie & “sans culottes”)

  6. Conditions in France Unfair taxation between Estates Clergy exempt from law

  7. Conditions in France Enlightenment ideas Voltaire -> Rousseau Montesquieu

  8. Conditions in France Huge debt! Due to 3 things

  9. Conditions in France Bread shortages

  10. So…what ignited the Revolution? Unhappy with conditions, distrusted leaders Louis XVI – French king Less money, mo’ problems 1787 – calls the Assembly of Notables

  11. Beginning of the Revolution January 1789 – Abbe Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? May 1789 – Estates General meets

  12. Beginning of the Revolution May 1789: Third Estate becomes the National Assembly June 1789: Tennis Court Oath

  13. Storming the Bastille July 1789

  14. The National Assembly gets to work August 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen “liberty, equality, fraternity” 1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. 2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.

  15. The women get involved October 1789: Women’s March on Versailles

  16. Flight to Varennes June 1791 How do you think this will affect Louis XVI’s public perception?

  17. Mounting pressure… August 1791: Declaration of Pillnitz April 1792: Louis declares war War of the First Coalition

  18. Storming the Tuileries August 1792 New government

  19. Republic September 1792: monarchy abolished, National Convention formed

  20. Goodbye, Louis XVI! January 1793: Convention finds Louis guilty of treason. He is beheaded with the guillotine.

  21. Counter-Revolution April-May 1793: uprisings in the Vendee.

  22. The Terror September 1793: Robespierre & Committee of Public Safety. Revolutionary Tribunal Guillotine -> 17,000 300,000 arrested

  23. The Reign of Terror ends July 1794: Robespierre executed. The Terror is over.

  24. New government August 1795: new constitution adopted, the Directory formed.

  25. Setting the stage for… Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 1804-1815

  26. Essential Question How did common people exert influence during the French Revolution? Go back over notes & find important events. Write 1 paragraph (with a thesis…don’t overthink it) answering the EQ.

  27. District Test tomorrow Review!

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