TAKE OUT THE 1810 MAP FROM
YESTERDAY
• Copy what you do not have on your map
• Fall of Napoleon
1. Trafalger-Defeated by the British
2. Continental System- failed economic blockade of
Britain
3. Peninsular Campaign- Portugal and Spain resting French
rule because of the British trade blockade
4. Russian Campaign-disastrous defeat (lost 500,00 men)
• Exiled to Elba; would eventually return
5. Waterloo-final defeat by allied European nations
(banished to St. Helena)
ANATOMY OF A
REVOLUTION
DEFINE REVOLUTION?
• Take I minute and come up with your own definition of revolution. Be
prepared to share.
• What if I said: “The earth completed one revolution around the sun?”
• Or “The main idea revolves around the notion of change?”
• Definition of revolution:
“a procedure or course, as if in a circuit, back to a starting point”
or
“a single turn of this kind”
(Dictionary.com)
CRANE BRINTON
• Today we are going to think like historians and model an analysis of the
French Revolution after Crane Brinton’s model
• Brinton was a 20th century historian who studied revolutions and created a
model and way of examining revolutions
• Our T/E skill today will focus on Critical Thinking (C-5): Demonstrating
Understanding of Concepts
• Saw revolutions as a fever. It starts with symptoms. He developed a key list:
WHICH OF THE SYMPTOMS FIT THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION?
1. People from all social classes are discontented
2. People feel restless and held down by unacceptable restrictions in society,
religion, the economy, or the government
3. The scholars and thinkers give up on the way their society operates
4. The government does not respond to the needs of its society
5. The government is unable to get enough support from any group to save itself
6. The government cannot organize its finances correctly and is either going
bankrupt and/or trying to tax heavily and unjustly
REVOLUTIONS WORK IN A CYCLE
• The circle can be broken into 4 different phases
I. Conservative
II. Moderate
III. Radical
IV. Reaction
• The break of each phase is seen at turning points (A, B, and C)
• I will assign you a quadrant. Take 7 minutes with your group and really think. What
happened in your phase? What might the turning point be?
• Jot your thoughts down on the back so that the final answers go on the front
I-CONSERVATIVE
• Conservative Upper-Class in change
• Negotiation Phase-things can work for a period of time
• The end of this marks the end of the ruling class
• Leader: Louis XVI (1789)
• Critical Events:
• Estates General
• Famine
• Financial Crisis
VIOLENCE A
• Guesses?
II-MODERATE
• Moderate is middle class (Girondins)
• National Assembly
• Takes over as violence begins
• Doomed to fail: too in the middle to please either
extreme
• Critical Events: Tennis Court Oath, Dec. of Rights of M+C,
1st Constitution
• Legislative Assembly
• Critical Events: War w/ Austria, Louis flees
VIOLENCE B
• Guesses?
III- RADICAL
• Radical is the lower class (Jacobins/Mountains)
• National Convention
• Lots of violence
• Want the most change b/c they have the least
• Critical Event: Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Try to remake society
• Cleanse the moderates (Girodins) and force rev. ideas on others
•
Critical Event: Terror
VIOLENCE C
•Guesses
IV- REACTION
• Directory
• Return to conservative
• Restore old system and return to good ol’ days
• Critical Event: Invasion of Italy
• Napoleon (Consulate and Empire)
• People tired of revolution
• Critical Event: Coup d’etat and plebiscite
• Louis XVIII-Monarchy Returned
CONGRESS OF VIENNA
• Comes off of reactionary phase
• Look at your Congress of Vienna Sheet
• Pick the result that you think is the most important and be
able to explain why
• DID NOT WANT REVOLUTION TO HAPPEN AGAIN
FOR THE TEST
• 30 mult. Choice/6 T or F/ 9 matching/ 10 quotations with choices/ term
identifications/ chronology
• 1550s-1600 Scientific Revolution (Know the chart that we did in class-don’t
worry about names of works)
• 1700s Enlightenment (Use the graphic organizers-one you had to do on your
own. Know especially Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau)
• 1789-1785 French Revolution
• Early Phases (Causes and Timeline)
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon (Rise and Fall)
• A few of the Revolutionary Leaders from Latin American Revolutions