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Silent Read Chapter 18 Section 1

Define: Estates General & Deficit Spending

Explain: Tennis Court Oath & Storm on the

Bastille

You have 10 minutes

RevolutionsEnlightenment ideas help spur revolutions in

America and France

American Revolution

Unrest grows in America

American colonies grow large and populous during

the 1600s and 1700s

Colonists identify less and less as British subjects

Britain imposes heavy taxes on the colonies to pay

off debt from the Seven Years’ War.

American Revolution

Growing Hostility Leads to War

Colonists protest tea tax with “Boston Tea Party” in

1773

Colonists meet in Philadelphia to address British

policies (1774)

British and Americans exchange fire at Lexington

and Concord in 1775

American Revolution

The Influence of the Enlightenment

Colonial leaders push for independence, rely on

Enlightenment ideas

Declaration of Independence—document justifying

colonial rebellion

Leader Thomas Jefferson writes Declaration, uses

ideas of John Locke

Americans Create a Republic

A New Constitution

Leaders call Constitutional Convention in 1787 to

revise articles

Group instead creates a new government under U.S.

Constitution

Constitution contains many political ideas of the

Enlightenment

Enlightenment Ideas and the

American Constitution

French Revolution - Origins

Revolutionary Ideas

New ideas that were coming out of the Enlightenment

Social Causes

The division of the three estates and unfair taxation laws

Economic Depression

Led to lack of work and deep hunger

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Chapter 18 Section 2Write answers in notebook to:

1. Checkpoint #1 (page 579)

2. Checkpoint #2 (page 581)

Grab your Graphic Organizer

from the BOX!!!!

French Society

The Estates-General

An old-world style assembly

that had not met in nearly

200 years

King Louis VI assembled the

estates to pass a tax increase

Miscalculation and lack of

social awareness of the

aristocracy

Third Estate objects

Tennis Court Oath – June 20, 1789

After being locked out of the estates meeting, the Third estate meets at a local tennis court

Vowed to create a new French Constitution

Renames itself the National Assembly.

Storming the Bastille – July 14, 1789

Angry citizens in support of the new National Assembly storm the Bastille prison in Paris

Large supply of weapons and ammunition inside

A symbol of the tyranny of the French government This is where political

prisoners were kept

Declaration of the Rights of Man—

August 27, 1789

The National Assembly issues The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Guarantees due process in judicial matters and establishes sovereignty Every person was a Frenchman and equal

French people embrace the document, while the king and nobles did not

Maximillian Robespierre and the

Reign of Terror

A committee on Public Safety

was created to maintain order

within France

They were given extensive

powers with Robespierre at

the head

Guillotine was created in 1792

to make executions efficient and

humane.

Both King Louis XVI and his wife

Marie Antoinette were executed

It is estimated that about 40,000

people were executed or murdered

during 1793 and 1794.

Overall population around 700,000

Maximillian Robespierre and the

Reign of Terror

Robespierre himself was executed

by guillotine in July 1794 at age 36

The Directory and Napoleon

Bonaparte A new constitution was

written in 1795, this government was called “The Directory”

Soon corruption infested this new government as well

In 1799 a coup de ‘etate was held in Paris by a charismatic, young military leader: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon would come to dominate all of Europe of the next 16 years.

Legacy of the French Revolution

Societal manifestation of Enlightenment ideals

Influenced the way European nations viewed their role in government