AP Euro 2011-2012
Mr. Burrell
The French Revolution
Objectives:
1. Understand the influences of various philosophes to include John Locke, Baron de
Montesqueiu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. Lists the conditions that encouraged the outbreak of the French Revolution and describe how
these conditions change throughout the Revolution.
3. Describe the transformation of the Estates General into the National Assembly then the
Legislative Assembly
4. Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional
monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire
5. Analyze the threat France posed to the rest of Europe and the various wars and alliances that
were created because of this threat
Calendar:
Thu 11/17
Turn in Philosophe Chart & Art Packet
Enlightenment Quiz (75 pts)
HW: Work on Outline & Thesis
Fri 11/18
Turn in Outline & Thesis
Begin looking at French Revolution: C&E Chart
HW: Read Kagan pg. 592-596
Mon 11/21
Setting the Stage for the Revolution
HW: Read Kagan pg. 596-598
Tue 11/22
Return Outline & Handout Final Instruction Packets
HW: Read Kagan pg. 599-603
Wed 11/23
Brainstorm Adopt A Family
Continue working with French Revolutio
HW: Complete Rough Draft
NO Study Hall – Minimum School Day
Thu 11/24
No School – Happy Thanksgiving
Fri 11/25
No School
Mon 11/28
1789 – A year like no other
HW: Read Kagan pg. 603-609
Tue 11/29
Wrap up 1789
HW: Read Kagan pg. 609-612
Wed 11/30
Marie Antoinette Biography
HW: Finish Rough Draft of Sophomore Project
NO Study Hall this week
Thu 12/1
Turn in Rough Drafts & Peer Edit
HW: Relax and take a break
Fri 12/2
Continue Peer Editing process
HW: Read Kagan pg. 612-614
Mon 12/5
The Politics of Reconstruction
HW: Work on Research Paper
Pioneer High Blood Drive
Tue 12/6
The End of the Monarchy & Political Spectrums
HW: Read Kagan pg. 615-620
Final day of Collections for Adopt-A-Family
Wed 12/7
Wars of the Revolution
HW: Work on Research Paper
Study Hall
Thu 12/8
The Reign of Terror
HW: Read Kagan pg. 620-624
Fri 12/9
Turn in all community service sheets
Thermidorian Reaction
HW: Finish Final Draft of Sophomore Project
Check printers and make sure everything is working
Mon 12/12
Begin looking at Napoleon
HW: Print out Research paper
S-Period & after school – Present Wrapping for Adopt-A-Family
Submit all completed community service sheets
Tue 12/13
Final draft of Sophomore Project due
Review for Quiz and continue Napoleon work
HW: Study for Chapter Quiz
Wed 12/15
Finals Period 1 & 2 (Modified schedule)
Thu 12/16
Finals Period 3 & 4 (Modified schedule)
Fri 12/17
Finals Period 5 & 6 (Modified schedule)
A few notes for the grades:
- Fall community service hours will be counted on the fall semester
- Every student is responsible for fifteen hours of service due December 9
- You can turn in hours that you perform during the weekend of 12/10 on
Tuesday Dec 13
- You may earn extra credit for every hour over 15, maximum of five hours extra credit
AP Unit VI Review Sheet
Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, tax problems, René Maupeou, Jacques Necker, Charles Alexandre
de Calonne, lower gabelle, Assembly of Notables, Estates Gerneral, Étienne Charles Loménie de Brienne,
don gratuity
First Estate, Second Estate, Third Estate, Abbé Siéyés, What is the Third Estate, reorginization of
estates General, Cahiers de Doléances, National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, National Constituent
Assembly, Paris population, Bastille, July 14, 1789, militia of Paris, Marquis de Lafayette, National
Guard, journeés, “Great Fear”, chateaux, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, bread riots, royal
family returns to Paris
Constitution of 1791, active citizens, passive citizens, Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the
Rights of Women, departments abolish the parlements, Chapelier Law, Confiscation of Church land,
assignats, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Gallican Liberties, refractory clergy, émigrés, flight to
Varennes, Decaration of Pillnitz, Emperor Leopold II, Legislative Assembly
Jacobins, Girondists, war on Austria, Francis II, Pauline Léon, duke of Brunswick, September
massacres, Convention, Battle of Valmy, sans-culottes, the Mountain, “ Citizen Capet”, trial of Louis
XVI, war on Great Britain, Holland and Spain
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, William Pitt the Younger, London
Corresponding Society, habeaus corpus, Francis II, Frederick William II, Catherine the Great, Alexander
Radischev, Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, First Coalition
Mobilized for war, Committee of public safety, Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Lazare
Carnot, Leveé en Masse, Rein of Terror, :republic of virtue”, Society of Revolutionary Republican
Women, De-Chirstianization, “Temple of Reason”, tribunals, enrages, Law of 22 Prairial, “Cult of the
Supreme Being”
Thermidorian Reaction, “the white terror”, “bands of jesus”, The Directory, the elders, the Council
of Five Hundred, Thermidor, 13 Vendémiaire, Napoleon Bonaparte, Treaty of Basel, Gracchus Babeuf
Unit VI: Guided Questions
Chapter 19: The French Revolution
1. What was the impact of the American Revolution on France and on the rest of Europe?
2. Even though the French government was more tyrannical or unjust in the late 1780’s than it had been in
the past, what failed in France’s political system and society that set off a revolution?
3. What were some of the economic reforms proposed by Jacques Turgot? Why did he fail?
4. How as Necker’s approach to dealing with France’s financial difficulties different from Turgot?
5. What were Charles Calonne’s economic reforms proposals? Why was he shocked at the refusal of the
Assembly of Notables to endorse them?
6. Why was the Estates-General reconvened after a century and a half?
7. In the local elections which ultimately sent representatives to the Estates General, which groups held a
majority in each Estate?
8. What was Abbé Siéyés view of the third estate? Why did it help save the National Assembly and the
Revolution?
9. Explain the actions taken in creating the National Assembly.
10. What was the significance of the fall of the Bastille? Why did it help save the National Assembly and
the Revolution?
11. Trace and account for the increasing intervention of the peasants and other commoners in the summer
and early fall of 1789.
12. What was the Great Fear? What was its impact on the National Assembly?
13. List the major political and philosophical principles espoused in the Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen.
14. How did Edmund Burke counter the views expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen?
15. What type of government was established by the Constitution of 1791? Which groups were
dissatisfied? Why?
16. How did Olympe de Gouge’s reworking of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen transform
its meaning? How did male revolutionaries respond to her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and
Female Citizen?
17. What practical role did women actually play in the French Revolution?
18. Identify some of the gains made by women during the French Revolution.
19. How did the National Assembly restructure France administratively?
20. How did the National Assembly apply revolutionary ideas to the economy?
21. What were the policies of the National Assembly toward the Catholic Church? How did these policies
revolutionize church-state relationships throughout France and the rest of Western Europe?
22. What were the consequences of the government policy of selling church lands and issuing assignats?
23. What was the reaction of the various European governments to the revolutionary events in France?
24. How did the Brunswick Manifesto affect developments in France?
25. Why did the Legislative Assembly disappear and a new National Convention emerge?
26. Why were peasants and urban workers dissatisfied with the course of events by late 1791- early 1792?
27. Who were the Jacobins? The sans-culotte? Why did the latter support the former?
28. Why might the insurrection of August. 1792 be called the “Second” French Revolution?
29. What caused the French Revolution to enter a second, more radical phase?
30. Who were the Girondins and the Montagnards [Mountain]? What were their political points of view?
Who were their major supporters?
31. What political positions did the centrists [the Plain] take?
32. What group represented the counter-revolutionary forces in 1792-1794? What characterized the regions
in which counter-revolutionary movements emerged?
33. What role did the Jacobins Club play in the “Second” French Revolution?
34. Why could it be said about the French Revolution [and other revolutions in history] that “revolutions
devour their children”.
35. Why did the Reign of Terror occur?
36. Which social classes in revolutionary France were most affected by the Terror? Least affected? Why?
37. What type of governments did Robespierre try to create in 192-1794? Identify some of the specific
changes and programs introduced?
38. How were radical women treated by Jacobins?
39. How was the French army becoming more egalitarian and democratic by the end of 1793?
40. What was the Thermidorian Reaction?
41. Identify the problems that faced the new government, the Directory, in 1795.
42. How did the Directory try to “turn a new [political] page” when it first came to power?
43. What were the provisions of the new French Constitution of the Year III?
44. Identify the weaknesses of the Directory. In what areas was it somewhat successful?
45. Why were the poor worse off under the Directory than before the Revolution?
46. Why have some historians described the Directory government as “ the mirage of the moderates?” Is
this an accurate label?
47. What were some of the characteristics of Napoleon’s earlier life and career that laid the groundwork for
his later rise to power?
48. What were some of Napoleons earlier military successes? Failures?
49. To what extent was his dramatic military/political ascent a product of the French Revolution?
50. Why was the Brumaire coup in 1799 successful? What were its political goals?
51. How did the Brumaire coup help install a dictatorship, even though that was not its original intent?