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Name __________________________ Date ______ Per_______ The French Revolution Movie Notes

25 Points, collected when the movie ends. If you miss class, please read get notes from another student and read p. 219- 227

(1)What evidence do we have Louis XVI (16th

) was a weak ruler?

(2)Why was Marie Antoinette viewed as a weak ruler?

[17:0

Winter

1788-

1799

(3) There was a severe famine worst in about 90 years in 1788.

This causes causes the price of bread to skyrocket. How does this

build resentment towards the king and instability?

[19:00-22:01789 (4)What was the Estates General?What was the problem with it? [22m

(5)Who was Robespierre?What did he fight for? [24 min]

June

1789

National Assembly- 3rd estate, frustrated with lack of representation,

leaves to create their own voting system.

y RESULT: They____________________________________

____________________________________________________.

y SIGNIFANCE: ___________ of the revolutionary movement and

the beginning of __________________ government in France

(elected officials by the people instead of a king).

June

20,

1789

Tennis Court Oath-Representatives from the National Assembly decide t

rewrite the________________________________.

y RESULT: Although some sympathetic

_______________________ , the King becomes worried and

stations Swiss guards outside.

y SIGNIFICANCE: Movement is first ____________ among differe

classes.

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July 14,

1789

(6)Why do the people Storm the Bastille?

(7)What did it symbolize?

(8)What revolutionary tradition is born? [26 min]

(9)What was its historical significance?

(10)How does Louis XVI react?

Aug

1789

(11)What was the Declaration ofRights ofMan? [31:50]

(12)Who was Marat [Marah]?

(13)How does he use his newspaper to help the revolution? [32 min

Oct

1789

Great Fear- Rumors emerge that nobles are hiring goons to terrorize

peasants with the support of the King.

(14)W

hat happens to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI? [36 min]

(15)What is Louis XVIplan to regain power? How does it backfire?

[40 min]

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(16)How was the guillotine an embodiment of Enlightenment ideas

[45 min]

1792 (17)What possibility causes the National Assembly to become

increasingly paranoid? [47-50:24 min]

(18) Could the revolution have been prevented?What mistakes did Louis XVI (16th) make?

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July 13,

1793

(19)How does the revolution grow more radically, especiall

concerning Marat [1:01]

(20)What happens to Marat? [1:01]

October

16,

1793

(21)How is Marie Antoinette degraded when she is execute

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1793 -

1794

(22)What was the Reign ofTerror? [1:12]

(23)What could get you imprisoned/guillotined under the R

Terror?

(24)How did the Committee ofPublic Safety change the

government?

(25)How is religion attacked and why? [1:16]

(26)How does Napoleon gain his reputation?

(27)Terror without virtue is disastrous; but virtue without

is powerless.What does this statement mean? [1:20]

(28)What happens to Robespierre? {124}

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