French Revolution Chapter 21 section 2

 Louis allowed the Estate Generals to meet together  Moved troops to Paris  The people feared that Louis was going to drive out the National Assembly  People took action

 July 14, 1789  Captured Bastille Prison  Symbol of royal oppression  Led to a new government in Paris

 General Lafayette  Fought in the American Revolution  People’s Army  National Guard  New Flag  Red, White, and Blue  Replaced the old flag  Similar events were spreading across the land  Great fear  Peasants attacked manor houses and monasteries

 National Assembly  Believed that violence could be resolved through reforms  Outlawed tithe  Canceled all feudal dues  Canceled services owed by peasants  Removed privileges from the First and Second estate  August 1789 did away with feudalism in France

Declaration of the Rights of Man  Dealt with basic Human Rights and political powers  Men are born equal and remain equal before the law  Freedom of speech, press, and religion  Guaranteed the right to a free trial  “Liberty, equality, fraternity”  Slogan

Fleeing  Émigrés  Emigrants  Will be trouble in years to come  Nobles would flee to Great Britain, Switzerland, and Germany  Plotting

National Assembly   Setting up new governments  Correcting abuses  First it will divide the country into 83 equal districts  Departments  Will call for elections of local officials

National Assembly con.  Seized land owned by the Catholic Church  Sold to the public  Paid off national debt  1790  Civil Constitution of the Clergy  Law that people would elect their own clergy  Government would pay the salaries of the bishops and priests  Catholics became opposed to the revolution

Constitution of 1791  Will limit the power of the king  Divide the government into 3 branches  Executive, legislative, and judicial  King could no longer block or make laws  Tax paying male-votes elected members to a legislative body  Legislative Assembly  Wealthy men still held the most power  Louis XVI will agree

 Even though Louis XVI agreed  Plotted to overthrow the new government  Émigrés  Wanted Old Regime  Louis and his family tried to escape  People will no longer trust Louis

 New constitution will go in effect for only a year  Set up a weak executive branch  Powerful and inexperienced legislative branch

Legislative Assembly  Divided into 3 groups  Conservatives  Felt revolution had gone far enough  King had limited authority  Right  Moderates  No extreme view  Center  Radicals  Wanted more drastic changes then were proposed  Get rid of king, set up republic, broad reforms  Left

 Failures in war, and economic shortage led to mass uprising.  Paris  Prussians vowed to destroy Paris if the Royal family was harmed  Revolutionary troops defended Paris  “La Marseillaise”  Marching song  France’s national anthem  4K1q9Ntcr5g 4K1q9Ntcr5g  M1wLtAXDgqg