Reforms/Changes to laws/economic challenges Flashcards
1
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Release of Assignats
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- Dec-Jan 1790
2
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Rationalisation of France
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- 14-16 Dec 1780
- 83 departement established
- Beginning of reorganising France on political, economic and social terms
- Marches equality idea
3
Q
Le Chapelier Law
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- 14 June 1791
- Abolition of guilds
- Free market
- Liberty, utility, merit
4
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changes to laws/taxes
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- Nov 2 1789; Nationalisation of Church land by the ‘Decree on Church land’
- Taxation became universal and proportional after 1789
- Oct 31 1790; abolition of customs barriers
- Creation of a national market
- March 1793: Inheritance laws ensure inherited property shared equally
5
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abolition of feudalism
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- August Decrees
- 19 June 1790: hereditary and noble titles abolished by the Assembly. Now used ‘citizen’ or ‘citizeness’
- 10 June 1793: common land in villages divided equally
- 17 July 1793: remaining feudal dues abolished without compensation
6
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abolition of slavery
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- 1790 and 1791: slave uprising in Saint-Domingue (brutally suppressed)
- April 1792: civil rights granted to all free coloureds (not slaves)
- 1794: successful slave riots in Saint-Domingue
- 4 Feb 1794: Universal Emancipation Decree (abolishment of slavery)
- “Reluctantly and belatedly, the Revolution also abolished slavery” (Doyle)
7
Q
economic challenges
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- 1791: poor harvest saw brain prices rise by up to 50%
- 1793: assignat (new paper currency) fell to 51% of its worth
8
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Law of Maximum
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- 4 May 1793
- Fixes grain price
