2. OBJECTIVE
Explain how the Age of Reason and the American Revolution led to revolution in France
Identify the Three Estates
Explain how the storming of Bastille led to a bloody rebellion
Describe how the rest of the Europe reacted to the French Revolution
List Napoleon’s accomplishments in government and in war

3. THE BIG IDEA
Social unrest, government debt, and food shortages contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

4. CAUSES Spread of Enlightenment ideas Huge government debt
Poor harvest and rising prices
Corrupt and week government(Louis XVI)
Formation of National Assembly
Storming of Bastille(political prison in Paris)

5. CAUSES

6. THREE ESTATES Estates-General (Government body-French Parliament)
Since the Middle Ages, everyone in France belonged to one of the three social classes called ESTATES

7. FIRST AND SECOND ESTATES
First Estate-clergy-0.5%
Second Estate-nobles 1.5%
Only 2% of people belonged to this two estates
They owned about 30% of the land and they paid little or no taxes
They had easy life

8. THIRD ESTATE Third estate the bourgeoisie(middle class)
city workers(poorly paid or without job)
peasants(farm workers)
80% of the population
Third estate had few rights and they paid high taxes
They were angry

9. TENNIS COURT OATH
Members of the Third Estate took the Oath. They swore to give France Constitution
They supported National Assembly

10. Storming Bastille
On July 14, attack on political prison in Paris
Revolution began

11. First French Republic The king Louis XVI was forced of the throne
New lawmaking body called the National Convention declared France a republic-1792.
The motto of the new republic was “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity”
(motto=word or phrase that expresses goals or ideals)

12. REIGN OF TERROR
Those considered to be enemies of the French Republic were executed by guillotine.
About to of people were executed during the reign of terror

13. REIGN OF TERROR Maximilian Roberspierre
(Gresham's law of political morality: the bad drives out the good .)

14. Napoleon French Hero Stabilize economy
make laws uniform; eliminated injustices
increase empire and defeat major enemy

15. Napoleonic Code-Law

16. Emperor Napoleon
1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor

17. NAPOLEON’S EMPIRE

18. Napoleon’s Mistake Napoleon declared war on Russia
1812-Defeat at Borodino- Russia
Over 500,000 men were killed or died of illness or starvation. Many froze to death

19. The first exile
Island Elba - Italy

20. The second exile -St. Helena

21. Congress of Vienna Restoration of Europe
Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain diminished the size and power of France
Europeans leaders wanted to establish peace and stability after Napoleon’s defeat at the Waterloo in Belgium-1815

22. EFFECTS France adopts its first written constitution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen adopted
Monarchy abolished; execution of king and queen
Reign of Terror
Napoleon gains power
Public school set up
French conquest spread nationalism
Revolution in Europe and Latin America