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    The French Revolution was a political revolution during which the l ower and middle class in France overthrew king Louis XVI and tried to institute a more democratic government. On the fourteenth of July 1789, revolutionists stormed the Bastille fortress, a symbol of the royal power. The newly introduced guillotine worked overtime beheading tens of thousands of French during the period known as the "terror"

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    TheFrenchRevolution(1789-1799)1

    DepictionofthestormingoftheTuileriesPalace
    on10august1792.
    Source:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Bertaux_-_Prise_du_palais_des_Tuileries
    _-_1793.jpg

    TheFrenchRevolutionwasapolitical
    revolutionduringwhichthelower
    andmiddleclassinFrance,
    frustratedoversocial,economic,and
    politicalproblemsinthecountryand
    inspiredbyEnlightenmentideas
    overthrewKingLouisXVIandtriedto
    instituteamoredemocratic
    government.

    StormingoftheBastilleandarrestofthe
    GovernorM.deLaunay,July14,1789.
    Source:
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg

    WatchTheFrenchRevolutioninaNutshell(startto2:13)andreadthetranscriptbelowthenanswerthequestionstotheright.
    So,howdidthisallbegin?Forhundredsofyearspriortotherevolution,FrenchpeoplelikemostEuropeans
    weredividedintothreesocialestates:clergy,nobility,andthelowestestate,thecommoners,whichexistedto
    servetheotherestates.AboveallwasGod'sgifttomankind,theking.

    ButthishierarchywasbeingquestionedbytheEnlightenment,athemovementofintellectualswhopromoted
    theuseofthereasonandscience.Revolutionaryideasbegantospreadtothepublic.

    Inthe1780swhenaneconomicallybrokensplitmonarchytriedtoincreasetaxesonthecommoners,
    resentmentreachedanewlevelandriotsbegan.OnthefourteenthofJuly1789,revolutionistsstormedthe
    Bastillefortress,asymboloftheroyalpower.Thisdateismarkedasthebeginningoftheendoftheold
    monarchyandbecameFrancesIndependenceDay,eventhoughthekingwasbeheadedin1793.

    Shortlyafter,theFrenchadoptedauniversaldeclarationwhichstated,thatMenarebornandremainfreeand
    equalinrights.Thiswasaradicalchangeeventhoughitleftmanypeopleout.ButtheFrenchRevolutionwas
    farfromasmoothride.Actually,itwasabloodbathwhichledtoexternalandinternalwars.Thenewly
    introducedguillotineworkedovertimebeheadingtensofthousandsofFrenchduringtheperiodknownThe
    Terror.

    In1799,therevolutionendedwhenamilitarycommanderbythenameofNapoleonBonaparteseizedcontrolof
    theFrenchlegislature,eventuallydeclaringhimselfemperor.

    1.Basedonthevideo,identifytwocausesofthe
    FrenchRevolution.

    2.ThiswasjustanoverviewoftheFrenchRevolution.
    Whatwouldyouliketolearnmoreabout?

    MosthistoriansmarktheendoftheFrenchRevolutionin1799whenNapoleontakescontrolofthecountrywhileothersconsider1815,whenNapoleonsreignendedasthefinal
    year.


    Althoughtherevolutionbeganandendedwithamonarchy,ithadacrucialimpactonEuropeandworldhistory
    andlaidthefoundationforamodernstategovernedbythepeople.

    TimelinePreview

    Directions:Examineeachofthefollowingtimelinesandanswerthequestionsaboutthemthatfollow.

    1.Accordingtothetimelineabove,identify
    fivecountriesthathadrevolutionsorwars
    ofindependencebetween1775and1848.

    2.Whichwasthefirstcountrytorebelin
    theAgeofRevolution?

    3.Basedonthetimeline,whatearlier
    eventsmayhavecausedtheAgeof
    Revolution?Whydoyouthinkthatwas?

    1.WhoruledFranceat
    thestartofthe
    revolution?Whoruled
    Franceattheend?

    2.Whydoyouthinkthe
    secondstageofthe
    revolutionwascalledthe
    RadicalRevolution?

    3.Whathappenedto
    KingLouisXVIduringthe
    secondstageofthe
    revolution?

    4.Basedonthetimeline
    above,whichcountries
    opposedtherevolution
    inFrance?

    5.Whodoyouthink
    Napoleonwas?

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