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4/17 Bell-Ringer
Silent Read Chapter 18 Section 1
Define: Estates General & Deficit Spending
Explain: Tennis Court Oath & Storm on the
Bastille
You have 10 minutes.
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Open up books to 572
Take out Revolutions Graphic Organizer
Review Silently.
RevolutionsEnlightenment ideas help spur revolutions in
America and France
American Revolution
Unrest grows in America
American colonies grow large and populous during
the 1600s and 1700s
Colonists identify less and less as British subjects
Britain imposes heavy taxes on the colonies to pay
off debt from the Seven Years’ War.
American Revolution
Growing Hostility Leads to War
Colonists protest tea tax with “Boston Tea Party” in
1773
Colonists meet in Philadelphia to address British
policies (1774)
British and Americans exchange fire at Lexington
and Concord in 1775
American Revolution
The Influence of the Enlightenment
Colonial leaders push for independence, rely on
Enlightenment ideas
Declaration of Independence—document justifying
colonial rebellion
Leader Thomas Jefferson writes Declaration, uses
ideas of John Locke
Americans Create a Republic
A New Constitution
Leaders call Constitutional Convention in 1787 to
revise articles
Group instead creates a new government under U.S.
Constitution
Constitution contains many political ideas of the
Enlightenment
Enlightenment Ideas and the
American Constitution
French Revolution - Origins
Revolutionary Ideas
New ideas that were coming out of the Enlightenment
Social Causes
The division of the three estates and unfair taxation laws
Economic Depression
Led to lack of work and deep hunger
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Chapter 18 Section 2Write answers in notebook to:
1. Checkpoint #1 (page 579)
2. Checkpoint #2 (page 581)
Grab your Graphic Organizer
out!!!!
French Society
The Estates-General
An old-world style assembly
that had not met in nearly
200 years
King Louis VI assembled the
estates to pass a tax increase
Miscalculation and lack of
social awareness of the
aristocracy
Third Estate objects
Tennis Court Oath – June 20, 1789
After being locked out of the estates meeting, the Third estate meets at a local tennis court
Vowed to create a new French Constitution
Renames itself the National Assembly.
Storming the Bastille – July 14, 1789
Angry citizens in support of the new National Assembly storm the Bastille prison in Paris
Large supply of weapons and ammunition inside
A symbol of the tyranny of the French government This is where political
prisoners were kept
Declaration of the Rights of Man—
August 27, 1789
The National Assembly issues The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Guarantees due process in judicial matters and establishes sovereignty Every person was a Frenchman and equal
French people embrace the document, while the king and nobles did not
Maximillian Robespierre and the
Reign of Terror
A committee on Public Safety
was created to maintain order
within France
They were given extensive
powers with Robespierre at
the head
Guillotine was created in 1792
to make executions efficient and
humane.
Both King Louis XVI and his wife
Marie Antoinette were executed
It is estimated that about 40,000
people were executed or murdered
during 1793 and 1794.
Overall population around 700,000
Maximillian Robespierre and the
Reign of Terror
Robespierre himself was executed
by guillotine in July 1794 at age 36
The Directory and Napoleon
Bonaparte A new constitution was
written in 1795, this government was called “The Directory”
Soon corruption infested this new government as well
In 1799 a coup de ‘etate was held in Paris by a charismatic, young military leader: Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon would come to dominate all of Europe of the next 16 years.
Legacy of the French Revolution
Societal manifestation of Enlightenment ideals
Influenced the way European nations viewed their role in government