 In 1700’s France was the most _____________ country in Europe  Center of Enlightenment  Large population  Prosperous foreign trade

 Bad _____________  High Prices  High __________  Questions raised by the Enlightenment

 1770’s – France was under the Old Regime  The people of France were divided into three large social classes or ______________

 First Estate (1% of French population)  Made up of clergy of Roman Catholic Church  __________ Enlightenment ideas  Paid ______ _______taxes

 Second Estate (2% of French pop.)  Made up of rich nobles  Held highest offices in government  ____________ with Enlightenment ideas  Paid ____ _______

 Third Estate (97% of French population )  Was made up of three sub groups  Included bourgeoisie (middle class businessmen), urban lower class, and peasant farmers  Peasant Farmers – largest group  Had _____ _________ to influence government  ________ Enlightenment ideas  Resented the wealthy First and Second Estates  PAID ___ _______ of TAXES!!!

 Member of the Third Estate were ____________ by the success of the American Revolution (Life, Liberty, and Property!)

 Louis XVI + Maria Antoinette  Weak Leaders  They were left a lot of debt from previous monarchs  Spent A TON of money  Tried to tax nobility!! (This is going to cause a problem!!)

 Called a meeting to vote on this new tax  This meeting was called the ________________  An assembly of representatives from all three estates would vote for this new tax

 Each estate’s delegates met in a separate hall to vote  Each estate had _____ _________  What’s the problem here???

 The two privileged estates could ___________ outvote the ________ estate.  This meant that the third estate _________ gained political success  They needed to do something about that!

 Third Estate – Named themselves the _________ ____________ ________  They could pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people  They were locked out of their meeting room by the nobles

 The National Assembly broke into an indoor ________ ________to create a new constitution – This became known as the Tennis Court Oath

 In response to the Tennis Court Oath he stationed his army around ______________  The French people thought the King was going to attack his own people  They began to gather weapons for defense

 July 14 th 1789 – An angry French mob attacked the Bastille, a French prison, to get ___________.  The French people took over the prison  This marked the beginning of the _______________!!

 From Paris to the countryside the revolution spread.  Peasants began burning down nobles’ farms  Women marched on Versailles and demanded _______ __________.  The monarch left France – The revolution succeeded!!

 Aug 4 th 1789 – Many Clergymen and Nobles joined the ___________ ___________. They took many powers away from the First and Second Estate.

 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen  This was the doc. created by the National Assembly (Like our _________________________)  It stated that “all men are born and remain free and equal in rights”  Freedom of speech, religion, and equal justice

 National Assembly took over Church lands  Clergy had to be elected  Clergy and nobles are __________ power!!

 For 2 yrs. the Assembly fought over a new constitution  Finally created a new one in 1791  Created the _____________ ______________  It could create laws and approve or reject declarations of war.

 The Legislative Assembly split into three groups  Those that sat on the ___________of the hall (Radicals)  Those that sat in the __________ (Moderates)  Those that sat on the ______________of the hall (Conservatives) Does this sound familiar???

 During the French Rev. other European countries did not want this revolution to spread into their country. SO – they demanded that the French restore Louis XVI to his throne.  NOT A CHANCE – Let’s go to WAR!!

 Rumors started that the Kings supporters were going to break out of prisons.  SO – revolutionaries broke into the prison and killed everyone.

 ________ with Legislative Assembly (1791) and ______ with National Convention  Universal male suffrage  Declared France a republic

 _____________ from a distinct political organization (revolutionaries)  Jean-Paul Marat – newspaper editor ▪ Believed that anyone who supported the kind should be KILLED!!

 1793 – King and queen are murdered by the newly introduced ______________.  This marks the beginning of “THE REIGN OF TERROR”!!!