In your journal, answer these prompts. Use full sentences and write for at least 5 minutes!
1. What do you think is the difference between a social protest and a political revolution?
2. Describe an event you have been in, seen, or heard about that you consider to be a social protest.

Unpopular Rule
We Don’t Like You!
Enlightenment Ideas
There are New & Better Ways
Economic Distress
Money Problems
Social Injustice
Being unfair to a group of people
Religious Intolerance
Being unfair to a religious group
Nationalism
We are the BEST!

We will…
Explain the causes and major events of the French Revolution in 1789.
You will be able to…
Social Studies
- Analyze the differences in social classes before the French Revolution.
- Identify key events of the French
Revolution:
•National Assembly & Tennis Court
Oath
•Storming of the Bastille
•Great Fear
•Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen
NEXT TIME/SOON:
Language
- Define: Estate, Bastille, Clergy
- Describe images of the French
Revolution.

What do you see?

What do you see?
July 14, 1789

What do you see?

What do you see?

What do you see?

1. Estates
2. Bastille
3. Clergy
4.
Coup d’etat
5. Balance of Power
6. Nation-state
7. Nationalism
8. Creole
9. Mulatto
10.Mestizo
11.Viceroy
12.Realpolitik

Estates - Social classes in France before the
French Revolution
Bastille - French prison
Clergy - Leaders of the Roman Catholic
Church (the First Estate)

Louis XVI

1. The Enlightenment
2. Influence of the
American
Revolution
3. Outdated Class
System
4. Failing Economy
5. King Louis XVI
6. Peasants’ Situation is Unbearable
7. Harvest Failures


Liberty (freedom)

Equality (fair treatment for all)

Reason
 John Locke’s ideas: Government that protects natural rights, especially the right to property

Voltaire attacked noble’s privileges and the Church's authority
What kind of government did Locke,
Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Jefferson
NOT like?

2. Influence of the American Revolution

American Revolution (1775 to 1783)

Enlightenment ideas in action

France helped the Colonies

Put Louis XVI in debt

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First Estate: Clergy (ex. Catholic priest)

Second Estate: Nobles
(Rich upper class people)

Third Estate : Peasants (98% of the people were in this class)


National Debt = 4 billion Livres
($5.6 billion in 1980 dollars!)

Inefficient and uneven tax system

Varied as to what region you lived in and what estate you were in

5. King Louis XVI &
Queen Marie-Antoinette

He was a weak King

Indecisive

Marie-Antoinette was allowed “to dispense patronage amongst friends.”

Peasants were …

Overtaxed

Land-starved

Subsistence farmers

Paid half of their income to taxes


Failures from 1787 to 1788

Less food available

Higher prices

Businesses failed

Unemployment in the cities

Unpopular Rule
We Don’t Like You!
Enlightenment Ideas
There are New & Better Ways
Economic Distress
Money Problems
Social Injustice
Being unfair to a group of people
Religious Intolerance
Being unfair to a religious group
Nationalism
We are the BEST!

• French Revolution Movie w/Questions

1789


Money problems forced Louis XVI to call the Estates-General into session.

Each Estate could caste ONE vote.

Main disagreement: Representation
– Should the estates vote by estate or by individual?


June 1789: The delegates of the Third Estate declared themselves to be a National Assembly.

This was the beginning of a representative government in France.
Abbe Sieyes – “What is the Third Estate?
Everything!”


The National Assembly met in a tennis court after being locked out of their meeting room.

They promised to make a new constitution:
Tennis Court Oath.

Louis ordered the First and Second Estates to join the National Assembly.

Rumors started that Louis had ordered foreign soldiers to attack the French citizens.


July 14, 1789: an angry mob stormed a
French prison to get gunpowder for their weapons in order to defend the city.
What American holiday is similar to
July 14, “Bastille Day?

July 14, 1789


A Great Fear swept through the country
– Peasants broke into and burned nobles’ houses
– Peasants tore up documents that forced them to pay fees to nobles


Late 1789, a mob of women marched to the
Palace of Versailles and forced King Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette to come to Paris.


National Assembly abolished (got rid of) all noble privileges

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Declared Natural Rights:
– Private property, liberty, security, and resistance to oppression

Declared freedom of speech, religious toleration, and liberty of the press.

1. Complete the back of the worksheet.
2. Look at the images from the beginning of class.
– You should NOW be able to identify several images!