Transcript Revolutions

Patten & Valdner
Global History
Regents Review
French Revolution
Causes of the Revolution
Social Cause of
Revolution
• Split into uneven social classes:
– 1st Estate
– 2nd Estate
– 3rd Estate
Economic Cause of
Revolution
• France in debt
• Deficit spending by Louis XIV
• Bad Harvests
Political Causes of
Revolution
• King had absolute power & became
corrupt
• People wanted freedom
Enlightenment
• Ideals of life, liberty & equality
• Inspired by American Revolution
Key Events of the French
Revolution
Estates General
• King Louis XVI
needed money
• The three estates
were called to a
vote on raising
taxes
• 3rd Estate was out
voted
Tennis Court Oath
• The 3rd Estate (peasant & Bougeoisie)
met to set up a new government
Storming of the Bastille
• Members of the 3rd Estate stormed the
prison (a symbol of the Old Regime)
Declaration of Rights of
Man
• A document
guaranteeing French
citizens their natural
rights (Locke)
• France set up a new
government
• Limited monarchy
– Limited the King’s power
Committee of Public
Safety (Reign of Terror)
• Led by Robespierre
• Using the guillotine they killed 400,000
“enemies of the Revolution”
• Including the King & Robespierre
5-Man Directory
• Moderate government set up to restore
order after the Reign of Terror
• Inefficient
Napoleon
• Seized power in a
coup d’etat
• Set up public
schools
• Fair taxes
• Napoleonic Codes
– Laws that
guaranteed natural
rights & equality
Defeat of Napoleon
• Got greedy & tried to take over too
much land (Russia)
• Defeated by scorched earth policy &
Russian winter
• Defeated at Waterloo by England,
Swedan, Prussia, & Russia
Congress of Vienna
• Return Europe to the political system
(Monarchy) that existed BEFORE the
days of the French Revolution and
Napoleon
• “Turn back the hands of Time”
Effects of the French
Revolution
• Democratic ideals throughout Europe People wanted liberty
• Nationalism (feeling of national pride)
• Latin America Independence
Movements
Latin American Revolutions
Revolutions Inspired
• American Revolution • French Revolution
Causes of Latin American
Revolutions
Causes of Revolutions
Political
Natives has no freedom or power
in government
Social
Rigid Social Classes
Economic
Colonies were angry because they
were being exploited by
Mercantilism
Toussaint L’Ovuerture
• Haiti
• Led an uprising
against France
(mother country)
• Was successful
Simon Bolivar
• The “Liberator”
• Wanted
independence for
South America from
Spain
• Was successful