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Creating a New France. Unit 2 Lesson 2 Big Idea: The National Assembly instituted poly and social reforms in the moderate first stage of the revolution. Objectives. Describe how popular revolts contributed to the French Revolution
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Creating a New France Unit 2 Lesson 2 Big Idea: The National Assembly instituted poly and social reforms in the moderate first stage of the revolution.
Objectives • Describe how popular revolts contributed to the French Revolution • Enumerate the moderate reforms enacted by the National Assembly • Explain how foreign reaction to the revolution helped lead to war • Simulate what life was like for the different class systems during the Revolution and act out the frustrations with the govt
Warm Up • When King Louis XVI called an assembly of the States General, he had no idea what events would transpire. Why were these events significant?
Revolts in Paris and Provinces • Poly crisis & bread prices • “Great Fear” • Rumors of attacks • Peasants attack nobles in response • Paris in Arms • Factions- small groups compete for power • Lafayette • Paris Commune
T-P-S • How did popular revolts contribute to the French Revolution?
Moderate Reforms • End of Special Privilege • Feudalism abolished • Reforms turned to law • Declaration of the Rights of Man • Liberty, property, security • Equal rights for men • “Life, Equality, Fraternity” • Activity- Primary Resource
Moderate Reforms • Women March on Versailles • Women march on Versailles • Angry w/Maire Antoinette • Won’t leave w/o king
The National Assembly Presses Onward • Nat’l Assembly moves to Paris • Reorganizing the Church • Civil Constitution • French Catholic Church under state control • Constitution of 1791 • Limited monarchy • Legislative Assembly • Louis’s Failed Flight • June 1791
T-P-S • What moderate reforms did the National Assembly enact?
Reaction Outside France • Widespread Fears • “French Plague” • Émigrés fled • Threats from abroad • Declaration of Pilnitz War • King Leopold II
War at Home and Abroad • Internal Divisions • Working class men and women push revolution (sans-culottes) • Demand Republic • Jacobins • War on Tyranny • April 1792 • Declared war on Austria, Prussia, Britain, and others (1792-1815)
Activity • Simulation
Closure • How were the people responsible for this Revolution? What actions did they take?