French Revolution political causes
(1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty" by the committee of public safety
Constitution of 1791
established a limited monarchy with 3 branches of government: legislative assembly, king, and revised judicial system.
Napoleon domestic policies
Napoleanic code, centralized government under his own authority. Created a merit based bureaucracy. He figured out how to balance absolutism and enlightenment ideals.
Great fear
A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789
Napoleon overthrows Directory
In 1799 napoleon returns from Egypt and helps overthrow the French government and establishes a three member consulate with himself as ruler. People supported a less representative government in exchange for peace and stability.
Storming of the Bastille
King Louis locked the third estate out of the meeting room, they declared themselves the national assembly
French Revolution economic causes
Expensive foreign wars (Louis 14-16) led to always increasing tax burden placed squarely on the peasants because the nobility was exempted from paying taxes
Liberal Phase of the French Revolution (1789-92)
Effects of the French Revolution
Led to the Haitian revolution, other European thinkers argued against the chaos of the reign of terror and prevented the revolution from spreading
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
Series of major wars led by French Emperor Napoleon against various Europeans powers after the French Revolution; ended with the failed invasion of Russia in 1812 and the loss at Waterloo in 1815. Spread French enlightenment ideas and rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Won a glowing reputation for his role in the French revolutionary wars
Worked to maintain the status quo and peace. They sometimes executed innocent people to send a message
(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
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
French revolution other cause
Radical Phase
War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
Napoleon becomes emperor (1802)
A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
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.
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
Provided competition to Riley dutch east India company
Effects of the French Revolution
Period of radical social and political change throughout Europe that began with an uprising
Napoleaon curtailed the freedom of speech and press
Installed state-sponsored censors in every major newspaper
French revolutionary wars
National Assembly nationalized and reforms the church
