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1
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French Revolution is example of what

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civic nationalism

2
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what was France like before the revolution

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  • no concept of “the people”
  • king claimed he WAS France
  • king shard political power with the catholic church
  • people had to political power
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what was France like after the revolution

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  • concept of “the people” taking hold
  • property owning middle class could vote
  • working class, women, and poor had little representation
  • jews and protestants were no longer treated as second class
4
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through what stages did the FR progress

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1) moderate (political)
2) radical (economic/ terror/ utopian)
3) thermidor
4) Napoleon

5
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first stage of FR

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Expansion of Liberal Political Rights

  • Declaration of rights of man: all citizens are equal
  • Civil constitution of the clergy: subordinated the church to the government. Priests would need to swear allegiance to the state
  • Enlargement of suffrage: men with property gained the right to vote
6
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second stage of the revolution

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New Economic Demands and Terror

  • New demands for economic justice
  • New threat of war for boarders
  • Fear of counterrevolutionaries leads to terror or “purification by violence” (Saturns children)
7
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third stage of the revolution

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Termidor

  • arrest of Robespierre marked the ends of the reign of terror
  • stage named after date of the coup
8
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fourth stage of the revolution

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Napoleonic Era

-under Napoleon, France exported ideas of revolution across Europe via invasions and alliances

9
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negative legacies of the FR

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  • many poor/ urban people felt the revolution was unfulfilled
  • tensions between freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion
  • robespierres terror left a bad rep for revolution
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accomplishments of the FR

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  • Absolut monarchy was replaced with liberal democracy
  • Nobility lost power to middle class
  • the ideas of enlightenment thinkers began to be in practice
  • FR set example for other countries to have revolution
11
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the FR was a ____ of revolutions

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series

12
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what rose from FR

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  • nationalism
  • liberalism
  • economic equality
  • rationality
  • terrorism
13
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why did the old regime collapse in the FR

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  • enlightenment ideas started to rise
  • bad economics( heavy debt/ couldn’t tax nobles/ rising price of bread)
  • unstable class hierarchy ( clergy, nobility, everyone else)
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Before the Yugoslav Wars

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  • all Yugoslavs, regardless of religion, linguistics, ethnicity, were theoretically equal as the government emphasized “unity and brotherhood”
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After the Yugoslav wars

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  • ethnic nationalist politicians stir up resentment among groups
  • the country collapses into civil war between clashing ethnicities, languages, etc.
  • eventually, half a dozen smaller nations are formed out of what once was Yugoslavia