Global
Awareness
Unit 9
Assignment – The French Revolution
Unit Readings:
·
Western Heritage – Chapter 19
·
Modern European History –
Chapter 14
Terms: Identify each of the following terms in complete
sentences (who, what, when, where!), being specific. Be sure to explain why the
term is historically significant.
1.
Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
2.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Estates
3.
Sans-culottes
4.
Bourgeoisie
5.
Estates General
6.
Cahiers de Doléances
7.
National Assembly
8.
Tennis Court Oath
9.
Constituent Assembly
10.
The Bastille
11.
The Great Fear
12.
August 4, 1978 (“Evening of Sacrifices”)
13.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
14.
Constitution of 1791
15.
Legislative Assembly
16.
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
17.
Émigrés
18.
Declaration of Pillnitz
19.
Jacobins (“the Mountain”)
20.
Girondists
21.
The National Convention
22.
Revolt in Vendée
23.
Edmund Burke
24.
Reign of Terror
25.
Committee of Public Safety
26.
Maximillien Robespierre
27.
Levée en Masse
28.
Republic of Virtue
29.
Cult of the Supreme Being
30.
Law of 22 Prairial
31.
Thermidorian Reaction
32.
The Directory
Five-Paragraph Essay: In the late summer of
1789, with the issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,
France seemed to be successfully making the transition from an absolute
monarchy to a constitution monarchy. By the summer of 1793, however, the
monarchy had been abolished, king had been executed, and the government had
fallen into the hands of a small group of radicals willing to use ruthless
violence against their perceived enemies. Using good essay format, analyze at
least three factors that explain the radicalization of the revolution between
1789-1793, incorporating much specific support from your readings and
notes.