1. November 26th, 2011 Announcements
Makeup Tests – Wednesday review session, Wednesday after school OR come during SSR
No retakes during class
Notebook – Due Thursday
Notebook order online, TOC pages up front
Deep Thought Question – Coming up next…

2. Deep Thought Question November 26th, 2011
We will listen to the song “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay. You will also receive a sheet of the song’s lyrics.
After listening to the song and seeing its lyrics…
What is this song all about? What is the meaning behind the song? What could this song mean or suggest about history? Free write your ideas for the Deep Thought Question.

3. On average, 100 people choke to death on a ballpoint pen every year.
Random Fact of the Day
On average, 100 people choke to death on a ballpoint pen every year.

4. Switching Gears
Enlightenment ideas had inspired the American colonists to rebel against their government and create their own nation
Now these Enlightenment ideas will inspire other people to rebel against absolute monarchy and seek to form other kinds of government…

5. Investigating Causes/Events of the French Revolution...
Open your textbook to page and complete the first page (front and back) of your note packet.
Pay attention to the focus question at the top of the page to focus your reading.
There will be a short quiz at the end of class to make sure you have been reading and working…

6. Reading Quiz How many estates were there in French society?
Which estate was taxed the most?
Which revolution inspired the French that they too could have a revolution?
Name one economic problem which plagued France before its Revolution.
Name the king of France immediately before the Revolution.

7. November 27th, 2011 Deep Thought Question
France had a three-estate system before the French Revolution which set boundaries on social classes and created great tension.
Imagine Madison Central had a three-estate system. What kinds of people would fill up each estate?
Makeup Tests – SSR OR tomorrow after school

8. Random Fact of the Day
The higher your IQ, the more you dream.

9. Answers Yesterday 3 3rd American Revolution
Debt from wars, bad harvests, etc.
Louis XVI or Louis the 16th

10. THE THREE ESTATE SYSTEM
BREAKDOWN
PAGE 3

11. Reason #1 – The Estates

12. Breakdown of Estates 2%
97%

14. 1st Estate Composed of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church
Owned 10 percent of the land in France
Contributed 2 percent of its income to the government

15. 2nd Estate Composed of rich nobles
Owned 20 percent of the land and paid almost no taxes
Along with clergy, dismissed Enlightenment ideas because they saw them as threats to their power

16. 3rd Estate Three different groups… Bourgeoisie (Middle Class)
Bankers, factory owners, merchants, etc.
Paid high taxes yet many had tremendous wealth
French city workers
Tradesmen, apprentices, laborers, etc.
Poorest group of the 3rd Estate
Paid low wages and often went hungry
Peasants
More than 80 percent of France’s 26 million people
Paid half of their income to taxes and duties to nobles

17. Reason #2 – Enlightenment Ideas
Members of the Third Estate were inspired by the success of the American Revolution
Began to question these assumptions of how society should be structured
Writers such as Rousseau and Voltaire began to impact the thoughts of the 3rd Estate

18. Reason #3 – French Economy
French economy, once in great shape, was in decline
Price of bread had doubled in 1789, leaving many peasants and city workers in a state of starvation
Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette were heavy spenders and drove France deep into debt

19. Reason #4 – Weak Leader
Louis XVI was an indecisive leader and preferred to spend time enjoying his hobbies rather than attending to affairs of state
Marie Antoinette offered bad advice, drew the ire of the French people, and spent so much money on her fashion that she became known as “Madame Deficit”

20. Your Weak Leaders…

21. Exit Question
Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution?
a. only peasants and the clergy paid taxes
b. only about two percent of the nobility paid any taxes
c. the nobility only paid taxes on land, not income
d. the members of the Third Estate, the 97% of the population that were mostly poor, paid almost all of the taxes instead of the wealthy nobility or clergy

22. ROAD TO REVOLUTION
NOTES
Page 4

23. Proposed Changes to the Estates General
France is out of money, and Louis’s solution is to impose taxes on the Second Estate
Second Estate forces him to call a meeting for the Estates- General, an assembly of representatives from all three estates, in order to approve this new tax
Estates-General format: 1 VOTE for each ESTATE
The 1st and 2nd Estate could always outvote the 3rd Estate
3rd Estate desires to change format so that each DELEGATE has a VOTE, which would give advantage to the 3rd Estate
3rd Estate had twice as many members as 1st and 2nd Estates combined

24. Formation of the National Assembly
Louis XVI orders Estates-General to stick with same format
3rd Estate decide to rename themselves the National Assembly and pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people
This act effectively would put an end to the absolute monarchy and create the beginnings of a representative government

27. Tennis Court Oath
Three days later, the Third Estate delegates were locked out of their meeting room
They then broke down a door to an indoor tennis court and promised to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution
Some clergy and nobility liked the ideas of reform from the Third Estate and joined the delegates during their deliberation

29. Storming of the Bastille
People in Paris began to fear a conflict between the King and the Third Estate, or worse, a potential invasion from another country…people began to gather weapons
On 7/14/1789, a mob of Parisians stormed the Bastille, a Paris prison looking for ammunition
The mob overwhelmed the guard, seized control of the prison, and violently murdered the prison commander and several guards
The act would be interpreted as a great feat where the people (the mob) overcame the limits of government oppression (the prison), and every July 14th in France today is known as Bastille Day

32. The Great Fear
Wild rumors went about the French countryside that nobles were hiring outlaws to terrorize the peasants
In the Great Fear, peasants responded by attacking many of their nobles for no reason
In October of that year, thousands of Parisian women rioted over the price of bread, and they then marched on Versailles and demanded the King and Queen do something
They forced Louis and Marie to return with them to Paris and rule from there, which they agreed to do

35. November 16th, 2011 Deep Thought Question
Look at the picture to the right. What does it suggest about the structure of French society at the end of the 1780s?
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36. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Random Fact of the Day
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.