Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FRENCH REVOLUTION
- Beginning of modern
age. 1789.
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- -A political revolution ended the Ancien Regime in France. Revolutionaries implemented a number of reforms influences by Enlightnment.
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- In Spain, the events of the French Revolution inspired the firts steps towards a new political, economic and social order.
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- The revolutionaries transformed the everyday life with new habits and customs.
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- Art reflected the political, economic and social changes.
- LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY.
- CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- The influence of enlightenment.
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- French intellecntuals and the burgeoisie supported Enlightnment ideas and tried to put them into practice.
- The political crisis.
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- In France, the estad¡tes general brought together representatives of the trhee estates of the realm to advise the king on important issues, such as tax increases.
- The ecnomic crisis.
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- -American War of indepemdence.
- Royal families spent large amounts of money on luxury things.
- Increase taxes.
- The social crisis.
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- All trhee estates of the realm were discontent with the crown, but for different reasons
- MAYOR EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- The national assembly.
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- A new voting system in which each representative would have an individual vote.. The members of the third estate declared themselves the true representatives of the nation. Then they formed a National Assembly and demanded a constitution.
- The Constituent Assembly.
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- A Constituent Assembly was elected ti write a constitution.
iN 1791 the constituents Assembly adopted constitution wich established a contitutional moarchy, popular sovereignity, the separation of powers and limited male suffrage.
- The Legislative Assembly.
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- Legislative Assembly was elected to implement the necessary legal changes. Two groups dominated this assembly.
Girondins and Jacobins.
- The Convention.
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- After the Convention, Louis CVI was accused of treason and then executed. The jacobins took control of government and imposed a DICTATORSHIP.
- The directory and the Consulate.
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- In 1795 Frances moderate middle class had gained control of the country. In order to stop violence they established the Directory that was a conservative government, In 1799 France was still in a war. General Napoleon Bonaparte organices military coup and established a new form of government called the Consulate.