French Revolution political causes
British East India Company
Provided competition to Riley dutch east India company
Radical Phase
National Assembly nationalized and reforms the church
Confiscated church property, eliminated the taxes peasants had to pay the church, clergy were placed under state control
October March on Versailles
Women marched to the palace of Versailles to demand the bread the king was hoarding. They then stormed the palace, killed several guards, and forced the king to accept the declaration of the rights of man and citizen, which he did
Napoleon domestic policies
Effects of the French Revolution
Conference of Vienna (1815)
European states gathered to negotiate how to restore the balance of power that had been so messed up by napoleon. Tried to establish lasting peace in Europe. Led to 50 years of peace.
Dutch East India Company
Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies. Aimed to dethrone the Portuguese dominance of Asian trade
Napoleon Bonaparte
Won a glowing reputation for his role in the French revolutionary wars
Constitution of 1791
established a limited monarchy with 3 branches of government: legislative assembly, king, and revised judicial system.
French Revolution (1789)
National Assembly
King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting room, they declared themselves the national assembly
Napoleon's secret police
Worked to maintain the status quo and peace. They sometimes executed innocent people to send a message
Great fear
A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
British Navigation Acts
Goods being shipped to or from british colonie shad to be on british ships. Made the british merchants very rich and weakened the dutch.
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Drew inspiration from enlightenment thinkers like Locke and Voltaire. Provided for freedom of speech and a representative government. Abolished the privileges of the upper estates, established popular sovereignty in France
Concordat of 1801
This is the agreement between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon that healed the religious division in France by giving the French Catholics free practice of their religion and Napoleon political power by retaining the right to nominate bishops and other church officials
Other European monarchies didn't like the revolution. In response France built the largest military Europe had ever seen by conscripting every man aged 18-25. They won the wars
Led to the Haitian revolution, other European thinkers argued against the chaos of the reign of terror and prevented the revolution from spreading
Napoleaon curtailed the freedom of speech and press
Installed state-sponsored censors in every major newspaper
(1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty" by the committee of public safety
Napoleon becomes emperor (1802)
War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
Continental System
Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy so he could finally defeat them.
Seven Years War
(1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. Left England in a lot of debt
Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Napoleon returns to France from Elba after being forced to abdicate the throne by the coalition of nations. Tried to overthrow his replacement Louis the 18th, but was defeated by other nations and sent to St. Helena island.
French revolution other cause
There was a bread shortage which finally sparked the revolution
The Spanish rebelled against napoleon's rule and the continental system. Started to weaken his rule
