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FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1799 - Coggle Diagram
FRENCH REVOLUTION
1789-1799
LONG TERM CAUSES
POLITICAL
Absolutism
Louis XVI had all the power
He said it was because divine right
ECONOMIC
High taxes to the poor
No taxes for the rich
Monarchy hight expenses
Luxury lives
American War of Independence
IDEOLOGICAL
American war of independence inspiration
power division
education for everyone
first enciclopedy
started questioning faith
SOCIAL
Ancient Regime
Privileged
2nd estate: clergy
1st estate: nobilty
Didn't pay taxes
Some political right
Non-privileged (3rd estate)
Burgeoisie
Peasants
Paid all taxes
No political right
SHORT TERM CAUSES
1780s decade
Famine because of bad harvests
1786
Louis XVI got bankrupt
1788-1789
Famine got worse because the bred price increased a lot
1789
2nd May
Estate General meeting started
1st estate: 290
2nd estate: 270
1 estate 1 vote
3rd estate: 590
wanted to change the voting system
from 1 estate 1 vote to 1 person 1 vote
NOT ACCEPTED
20th June
King sent away 3rd estate
Started meeting in the tennis court of versailles
They created a institution to represent all french
National Assembly
Create the Tennis Court Oath
They wouldn't move from there until they write a constitution
people in Paris started protesting because of hunger
King sent soldiers but the riots continue
14th July
Bastille was stormed
protestors went to Bastille prison and the guards join them
Trigger event: official start of French revolution
FRENCH REVOLUTION started
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
Legislative Assembly
Counter revolutionaries wanted Ancient Regime back
European countries didn't want the revolution (international opposition) because they didn't want to be the next.
Inside the revolutionary people they were different opinions
National Constituent Assembly
Eng of the Ancien Regime: "all men are born free and equal in rights
Declaration of "the rights of the men and the citizens"
Radicalization in the streets
1791
June
the king and Royal gamily tried to escape -- they were caught
October
the constitution was written
FIRST REPUBLIC
National Convention
Girodin: more moderate
France become a republic
Started executing everyone who was against the republic
In the middle of Paris
21st January 1793
Louis VXI
Jacobin: more radical
Started executing people who wasn't 100% sure
Robespierre
called "Reign of terror"
he was executed
28th July 1794
Jacobin leader
Wrote a new constitution that was never used
The Directory
More moderate
Some people gave a coup d'etat
Wrote a moderate constitution
Won against international countries
Very successful estrategies af Napoleon Bonaparte (general)
FRENCH REVOLUTION ended (1789-1799)
NAPOLEON'S TIME
1799-1814
CONSULATE
He gave a coup d'etat
Napoleoan applied revolutionary ideas
EMPIRE
END (1814)
By the congress of vienna
They sent him to Elba (mediterranean island, but he escaped
In the Waterloo battle (1815) Napoleon was defeat
They sent him to Santa Helena (caribean island)
He died there some years later
He spread revolutionary ideas almost all of Europe
He declared himself Emperor of the french
HIS REFORMS
Religion
Freedom of religion
Prohibited the tithe (tax - 10% of what they won)
Govenment
Unification (centralised country)
Civil servant ( people who work for the state)
Law
Wrote "Napoleonic Code": a set of laws
to help leaders decide if something was punishable
equality and religion freedom
women hadn't right, equality between men
Education
Devided education and religion
No religious schools: education become secular
He created a curriculum
Still using in France
Economy
Created french roads to transport things and to trade
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
What?
A coalition of European countries
Aims
Stop wars and send Napoleon away
Restore all boundaries in Europe (back to the limits before Napoleon)
Restore absolutism in all those countries
the Ancient Regime
the citizens accept it for some years but then, they started fighting again for freeedom
When?
First meeting 1814
Last meeting 1815
Who?
Austria
Russia
Prussia
Great Bretain
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