3.2 Franse Revolutie part 2

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3.2 The French Revolution

                   States General

Clergy

Nobility

Third Estate

Causes French Revolution

* Inequelity and injustice of the Ancien Régime

* Rise of enlightened ideas

* France's lack of money

* Liberty, equeality, fraternity

The Revolution gets out of hand

*1791 King tried to flee

* Afraid a king would undo the Revolution

* 1792 Louis XVI removed from power and sentenced to death

 -> treason

* Republic

National Assemlby

* Moderates

* Change -> not radically and not so fast 

- Wars were going badly

- The poor did not have any politicial influence

- No right to vote for all men

Radicals

* Big changes as soon as possible

* Maximilien Robespierre

* seized power

- Ordinary people more influence

Reign of Terror

* Moderates -> enemy

*  Reign of Terror

* 1793- 1794

* Guillotine

* 40.000 French people were killed

Which group wanted big changes as soon as possible

1. Moderates
2. Radicals
3. Louis XVI
4. The third estate

How do we call the period in the Frech Revolution in which the radicals had all the power?

What are the three core values of the French Revolution

Why was the States-General an unfair system for the third estate?

What event can be seen as the beginning of the French Revolution?

1. Storming of the Bastille
2. Louis who fled the country
3. Decapitation of Louis
4. Start of the National Assembly

When did the French Revolution start?

1. 1970
2. 1879
3. 1750
4. 1789

Make the assignments of paragraph 3.2

3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

and

8 en 10

Done? Make a timeline of the French Revolution