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What was the Old Regime?
- socio-political system, in the 18th century
- absolutism
- the estates
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The First estate
- 130 thousand
- important members of the Church
- Privileged class- no taxes, treated well
- moral obligation
- support monarch
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The Second estate
- 110 thousand
- Nobles
- Privileged class- no taxes, treated well
- support monarch
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The Third estate
- 25 million
- Everyone else- like peasants
- Unprivileged class- paid taxes, treated badly
- pay all taxes
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Type of thinking used by the philosophes
- secular thinking
- logic and reason
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Long-term causes of the
French Revolution?
- Absolutism
- Poor harvest
- Enlightenment philosophes
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Short-term causes of
the French Revolution?
- Bankruptcy
- Taxation nobility
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Paris building was stormed
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What human rights were established in
France by the Declaration of
the Rights of Man?
- Life
- Liberty
- Property
- Equal Protection by law
- Freedom of Speech
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Name and describe the two political parties
that competed for power in revolutionary France
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What was the Committee of Public Safety?
Group of people who were suppose to be protecting the people
- Robespierre ruled and became,
- the reign of terror
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Describe the Reign of Terror and explain how it eventually came to an
end.
- people were being trialed to see if were helping the revolution
- it ended July 28,1794, when Robespierre went to the guillotine.
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