1. Mini project: Reforming France

2. No Real Plan Revolutionaries seized Louis XVI and the royal family.
The National Assembly had to create a government that would be strong to handle enemies from outside and counter-revolutionaries inside.
It still had the economic and health problems of the old France to deal with.

3. Political Strains Radical French leftists wanted to remove the king
Sans-cullotes (laborers, peasants)
Jacobins (middle class lawyers/professionals)
Girondists (middle class lawyers/professionals, opposed the Jacobins)
wanted to remove the king
and arrest the rich
(take their property to improve the economy and give to the lower classes.).

4. National Assembly Actions and Reforms—
Mini-project: You are the French National Assembly
(divide into four committees: find how the National Assembly dealt with each issue—ten minutes)
You will research (7 min)
Write your individual findings on a separate piece of paper
Put your name on that paper to turn in later.
You will prepare your sheet 8 min)
Put your committee’s actions on a piece of poster paper.
Your committee topic
Your committee statements/reforms
Write the page number (s) you found the information on.

5. Action Committees Committee on What to do about the Aristocrats: 5
as assigned
Committee on Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man: 6
Committee on What to do about the Church: 3
Committee on Government Reform: 9

6. Goal of the National Assembly
Create a complete list of what the French Revolutionary Government would do about France…..

7. Answers: Aristocrats Committee:
Removed privileges of the aristocrats.
Lose hunting rights,
must pay taxes,
no manorial dues
not above the law
Page(s)?
115

8. Answers: Declaration Committee:
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen:
All men are born and remain free and equal in rights
They enjoy rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Government exists to protect the rights of citizens.
Any free man can hold public office.
Religious freedom.
Taxes paid according to ability to pay.
Page(s)?
(more on p. 120)

9. Answers: Church Committee
The Catholic Church
Put under state, not Rome’s (pope’s), control.
Nationalized convents and monasteries
Bishops and priests were elected and paid government salaries
Page(s)?
117
EC: How did this turn more people, including revolutionaries, against the revolution?
Many who supported the revolution, were angered with the takeover of the Church.
This reduced popular support of the revolution.

10. Answers: Government Committee
A constitution was written, 1791—
Limited monarchy
Legislative Assembly
Make laws
Collect taxes
Decide issues of war and peace
Lawmakers would be elected
Tax-paying males 25 and older can vote
Country divided into 83 equal administrative departments
Courts reformed
Laws reformed
Page(s)?
117-8