Social Midterm Studying

By tamivomeow
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    Seven Years' War

    -Put France in debt
    -Caused people to question the strength of Frane
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    American War of Independence

    • Expensive
    • Ironic

  • Compte Rendu

    False expeditures of France recorded by Necker

  • Financial situation of France comes to head

    • Calonne reports revenues to 475 million livres and expenditrues to be 587 million livres

  • Calonne called for the Asembly of Notables to approve tax reform

    • They suggested to call up the Estates-General (hadn't met since 1614)
    • Calonne replaced by Brienne

  • Louis Called for the Meeting of the Estates General

  • Estates General meets

    Dilemma of vote by order versus vote by head

  • National Assembly created by the third estate

  • Many Clergy joined the National Assembly

  • Meeting Hall of third Estate was closed in preparation of the the Seance Royale

    Tennis Court Oath - when it becomes treason

  • Seance Royale

    • Abolished lettres de cachet
    • Removed internal trade barriers -Abolished corvee and gabelle -Estates-General meet separatly

  • Louis reversed decision of June 23

    • Said the third estate shoul meet with the first and second
    • Accepted vote by head

  • Louis ordered 25 000 troops to be placed in Paris and the Versailles area

  • Louis dimissed Necker

    The troops and Necker's removal was an indication to many people that Louis was going to crush the National Assembly through force.

  • Parisian seized weapons from Les Invalides

    • Sans-culottes stormed the Bastille
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    The Great Fear

    • Demonstrations and riots against taxes, feudal dues and tithe
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    The August Decrees

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

  • March of the Fish Women to Versailles

  • Nationalization of Church Land

    • Assignat created (bonds backed by the sale of Church lands)

  • Civil Constituion of the Clergy

  • Louis' Flight to Varennes

  • Champs de Mars massacre

    • Fractured the third estate

  • Declaration of Pillnitz

  • The Constitution of 1791

  • War with Austria

  • Brunswick Manifesto

  • The Attack on the Tulieries

    • The end of the legislative assembly
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    September Massacres

  • First Meeting of the National Convention

  • France is a republic

  • Creation of the First Coalition

  • Louix XVI's execution

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    Vendee Rebellion

    • Response to the conscription call for 300 000 troops
    • Showed division in France over the direction of the revolution

  • Execution of Danton and supporters of the Girondins

  • All Churches Were Closed

  • Robespierre joins Comittee of Public Safety

  • Law of General Maximum and Law of Suspects

  • The Law of Frimaire

    Granted the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security with full executive powers

  • The Law of 22 Prairial

    • Don't need evidence
    • Rule by consensus

  • Coup of Thermidor

  • Robespierre's Execution

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    The White Terror

  • Constitution of the Year III

  • Vendemaire Uprising

    • Royalist sympathizers converged on the legislature.
    • Napoleon opened fired on the crowd and kled over 300
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    Coup d'etat of Frictidor

    Reponse of Napoleon to the royalist supporters in the directory

  • Law of 22 Floreal

    Elections were annulled and 127 deputies expelled

  • Coup d'etat of Brumaire