(This list is not all-inclusive.)
Causes of the French Revolution
Unfairness of voting procedures in the Estates
General
Accessibility of First and Second Estate, but not the
Third Estate, to high office
Desire of bourgeoisie for more political power and
social status
Influence of Enlightenment ideas (Locke,
Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu)
Influence of democratic movements in England and
the American colonies
Details about the gap between rich and poor or
about the increasing cost of living
Shortages of grain and famine, widespread crop
failures
Cahiers de doléances
Government debt (maintenance of Versailles, war
debts, aid for the American Revolution)
Dislike of Louis XVI’s political marriage to the
Austrian princess, Marie Antoinette
Estates General not meeting in 175 years
Influence of Abbé Sieyès—What is the Third Estate?
Storming of the Bastille
Influence of the Tennis Court Oath
How the French Revolution Affected the People of France
End of the Old Regime
End of feudal taxes
Émigrés
Sans-culottes
Storming of the Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
The Women’s March
Nationalism: La Marseillaise, tri-color
Replacement of terms: “citizen” instead of
“subject”
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Details about the Constitution of 1791
Execution of the king and queen
Abolition of monarchy by the Convention
Impact of Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges
on women’s rights
Role of Danton, Marat
Impact of Napoleon: merit system, stabilization of the
economy, Bank of France, metric system, Legion of
Honor, Concordat of 1801, plebiscites, concentration
of power in Paris, corruption of liberty, reduction in
status of women
Effects of the Congress of Vienna
Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
Impact of the French Revolution Outside France
Revolt in Haiti (Toussaint L’Ouverture)
Sale of Louisiana Territory to the United States
Forcing Napoleon to give up plans to invade Britain
War of 1812 between Britain and the United States,
a result of the use of the blockade against Britain
and the Continental System
Disruption of mercantilism in the Spanish colonies
Influence on Latin American independence
movements (Bolívar, San Martín)
Impact of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna
Increase in power for Russia as a result of French
loss
Spread of principles of nationalism and liberalism
throughout Europe (unification of Germany and
Italy)
Influence on Decembrist leaders in Russia to organize
protests against czar (Russian Revolutions)
Influence on ideologies of conservatism and liberalism
Spread of Enlightenment ideas of freedom, equality,
and popular sovereignty
Revolutions of 1820, 1830, and 1848
Breakup of empires
Details about protest in Tiananmen Square
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