SOCIAL STUDIES 8M

June 16

The French Revolution

Video Review – “Causes of the French Revolution” (TedED)

Discuss Graphic Organizer – Leadership (Activity 3-3 MOODLE PDF)

Notes/Discussion:

• Influence of the American Revolution
  • “no taxation without representation”
  • equality
  • government by consent of the people
  • inalienable rights
• Influence of the Industrial Revolution
  • rise of a middle class
  • “technological” unemployment
• Estates General
  • creation of the National Assembly
  • the Tennis Court Oath
• Food Crisis, Louis XVI’s reaction and the fall of the Bastille
• National Guard
• Revolution spreads from Paris
  • The Great Fear
• Women’s March on Versailles
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
  • liberte, egalite, fraternite
  • “citizen”
  • les emigres
• The struggle for power
  • les Jacobins (Danton, Robespierre) vs les Girondists (Roland, Corday)
  • les sans-culottes (Marat)
• The Revolutionary Wars and French Nationalism
• The National Convention & “Louis Capet”
  • The Reign of Terror
  • Reign and fall of Robespierre
  • The Thermidoreans
• The Directory and regress

Reading Comprehension Check – Chapter 3 Crossroads

Homework/Reading:

• Read Chapter 4 – Napoleonic Era by Monday, June 21