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Causes of the French Revolution: Enlightenment
A philosophical and intelectual movement that ocurred in Europe. It's called enlightenment because with they started to think about liberal ideas -
Military and financial aid for USA
France helped the revolutionaries of America with two million dollars and soldiers. -
Causes of the French Revolution: Financial and economical crisis
There were bad harvests and monarchy hadn't money. One solution was that the clergy and the nobility. -
The Tennis Court Oath.
In this meeting they created the new National Assembly who abolished the feudal rights and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
Poor social structure: Peasants and Bourgeoisie not represented). Economic development of the Bourgeoisie. Nobility and Clergy overrepresented. Three estates: privileged and non-privileged estates
The peasants and bourgeoisie weren't represented.
The bourgeoisie was very rich but because of they were of the 3rd Estate they weren't represented.
Some of the bourgeoisie was more rich than some of the nobility and clergy.
The nobility and the clergy were the first two states and the privileged ones and the 3rd Estate wasn't privileged. -
Estates General and votes per estate.
It was the Assembly of the Ancien Régime. And each state was represented by one person. -
The Storming of the Bastille
´The revolutionaries attacked Bastille to take weapons and liberate the revolutionaries that were in prison. This was the movement that started the revolution. -
Declaration of the rights of Man
The National Assembly wrote this is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution. Inspired by Enlightenment philosophers. -
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Phases of the French Revolution: Constitutional monarchy
The National Assembly made some legal reforms: feudal rights were abolished and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: rights, freedoms and equality.
1791 Constitution:
-Constitutional monarchy
-Popular sovereignty
-Separation of powers
-Limited male suffrage (Men with certain wealth, in a census) -
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Phases of the French Revolution: Social Republic
Radical bourgeoisie (Supported by popular classes), Republic, more equality (universal male suffrage and more social laws).
Girondist convention: They were the moderate ones.
Jacobin convention:They were the moderate ones.
The Terror: The reign that was imposed by the Jacobins and his representant was Maximilien Robespierre. -
The execution of Louis XVI
The king and the queen tried to escape from France to ask for help to Austria to stop the revolutionaries but they kidnapped them in Varennes. The king was judged for treason and they executed him. -
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Phases of the French Revolution: Conservative republic
There were five directors who formed the Directory. They agreed that because to change one thing the five had to agree. One of the liders of the French army was Napoleon Bonaparte. New moderate-bourgeoisie. -
Coup d'etat
Napoleon Bonaparte, returning from the Egyptian campaign and taking advantage of the political weakness of the ruling Executive Directory in France, staged a surprise coup d'état with the support of the people and the army. -
First Consul
The Consulate was the institution of government in France after the fall of the Directory. After Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état on 18 Brumaire, a new constitution was promulgated which established an executive power composed of three consuls for 10 years in office from 1799, but all power was concentrated in the first consul, until the beginning of the Napoleonic Empire in 1804. -
The empire
El primer Imperio francés, también conocido como el Imperio napoleónico o la Francia napoleónica, fue el gobierno monárquico establecido por Napoleón Bonaparte tras la disolución de la Primera República Francesa en 1804.3 En su máximo apogeo, el Imperio comprendió la mayor parte de Europa Occidental y Central, además de poseer numerosos dominios coloniales y estados clientelares -
The battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, pitted a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I against the combined Russian-Austrian forces of Russian Tsar Alexander I and Austrian Emperor Franz I on 2 December 1805 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. -
Prussian campaign
Napoleon decisively defeated the prussians in an expeditious campaign that culminated at the battle of Jena- Auersterdedt on 14 October 1806. French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin. -
Spanish War of Independence
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. -
The battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about twenty kilometres south of Brussels, pitting the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, against British, Dutch and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian army of Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher.