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The Revolution Begins

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• Main Idea / Reading Focus
• Causes of the Revolution
• Quick Facts Causes of the Revolution
• First Events of the Revolution
• Creating a New Nation

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The Revolution Begins
Main Idea Problems in French society led to a
revolution, the formation of a new government,
and the end of the monarchy.

• Reading Focus
• What caused the French Revolution?
• What happened during the first events of the
  Revolution?
• How did the French create a new nation?

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Causes of the Revolution

• Long-standing resentments against the monarchy
• Inequalities in society
• Existing social and political structure
• Called the Old Order, or ancient régime
• King at the top and estates under him
• King Louis XVI, shy and indecisive
• Unpopular, self-indulgent queen, Marie-Antoinette
• Rest of French society divided into three
  classes, called estates

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The Three Estates (Social Classes)
Varied widely in what they contributed in terms
of work and taxes
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Further Causes
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Summarize What were the causes of the French
Revolution?
Answer(s)S.E.E S - Social Classes (inequalities
in society) E - Enlightenment ideas E Economic
Crisis
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  create explanations and interactions for the
  THREE MAIN CAUSES of the French Revolution. You
  are to write out each cause, explain what it is
  in your own words, and draw a picture that
  represents it.

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First Events of the Revolution

• By 1789, no group happy
• Clergy and nobility lost power to monarchy
• Bourgeoisie resented regulations
• Poor worse off

• Estates General meets
• Desire for reforms
• Voting process a problem
• Third Estate proclaimed themselves National
  Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath

• Storming of the Bastille
• King brought in troops
• People of Paris armed themselves
• Searching for weapons, a mob stormed the Bastille

• Great Fear spread
• King to punish the Third Estate with foreign
  soldiers
• Rumors of massacres
• Peasants destroyed records and burned nobles
  houses

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Identify Cause and Effect What was the connection
between the fall of the Bastille and the Great
Fear?
Answer(s) possible answerAfter the fall of the
Bastille, people were terrified that the king
would punish them.
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Creating a New Nation
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Formation of a New Government
In 1791, the Legislative Assembly is formed.
Citizens gained broad voting rights, but rights
were not universal. Constitution restricted power
of king and ended distinctions of birth. King and
queen feared they would be harmed.
French revolutionary troops won the Battle of
Valmy. New French republic held ground against
Europes Old Order.
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Sequence What steps did National and Legislative
Assemblies take to create a new nation?
Answer(s) National Assembly completed
constitution and created Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assemblycreated a new legislature,
the National Convention, which abolished the
monarchy and declared France a republic