1. What’s this political cartoon showing?

2. The French Revolution
BIG Idea: In 1789, Enlightenment ideas and poor living conditions led the lower and middle classes to question absolute monarchy and feudal privilege.
By Sam Irving

3. 1st Estate: Clergy 1% of the population. Paid no taxes.
Collected a tithe, or tax, from church-goers.

4. 2nd Estate: Nobility 2% of the population. Paid no taxes.
Collected feudal dues from peasants.

5. 3rd Estate: Everyone Else
97% of the population.
Peasants, urban poor, and the Bourgeoisie (Middle-Class).
Paid taxes.
Had few rights or privileges.

6. Now can you guess who’s who & what the stone symbolizes?

7. Economic Crisis
King’s lavish spending and support for the American Revolution indebted France.
Crop failure in caused a bread shortage.
Privileged classes refused to pay taxes.

8. Estates General French Legislature 1 vote per Estate
Who wouldn’t be happy about this?
Tennis Court Oath: 3rd Estate rejects the Estates-General and vows to write a constitution.

9. Call to Arms 1789
July 14th, Angry mob attacks a Paris prison called the Bastille.
Peasants in the countryside destroy feudal records.

10. King Louis XVI: “Is it a revolt?”
Answer: “No, sire. It is a revolution.”

11. Women’s March to Versailles for bread and Marie Antoinette's head.
Return to Paris with the royal family as captives.

12. Revolutionary Gov’t 1791 Enlightenment-influenced
Equality for men
Free Speech
Republic: Elected leaders
Killed King Louis XVI in 1792.
Ended Feudalism.

13. How does this image portray the revolutionaries?
War Abroad
European monarchs viewed the revolution as a threat to their authority.
Led to war in 1792
How was it a threat?
How does this image portray the revolutionaries?

14. Reign of Terror
M. Robespierre: revolutionary leader who feared opposition at home.
40,000 beheaded on the guillotine.
Enlightened executions

15. Revolutions often eat their own.

16. Robespierre executed.
Inept revolutionary government was overthrown by French general Napoleon in 1799.

17. Questions and Summary On your own. I’ll grade based upon effort.
Two higher-level questions.
Well thought-out summary.

18. Assignment: Comparing Revolutionary Documents
ELT: Give examples of how philosophical beliefs influenced society
Compare documents from the American and French revolutions to find Enlightenment ideas.

19. Works Cited
A contemporary cartoon showing a peasant crushed by the levies which the monarchy. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Cruikshank, George. The Radical's Arms Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Farah, Mounir A., and Andrea B. Karls. World History The Human Experience. New York: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, Print.
French guillotine blade falls and executes person. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Giljotina. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Guillotine Animation. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov
Guillotine Head Cut Off. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <

20. Houel , Jean-Pierre L. Prise de la Bastille. 1789
Houel , Jean-Pierre L. Prise de la Bastille Bibliothèque Nationale Française. Web. Web. 24 Nov
Man With Empty Pockets. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Robespierre. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
The execution of Robespierre. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
They Eat Their Own. Private collection. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Tussaud, Marie. Tussaud's Famous Death Masks. Madame Tussaud's, London. Web. Web. 24 Nov <
Women's March on Versailles. Private collection. Web. Web. 23 Nov <