Agenda & Homework

10/2 - Read Ch 3 section 2 and take notes

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

French Revolution Test Review

Identifty the following people:
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Robespierre
Jean Paul Marat
Georges Danton
sans-culottes

What did the National Assembly do?
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
What was the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
What did the Legislative Assembly do?
What did the Paris Commune do?
What was the Declaratio of the Rights of Man and Citizen?


What were Napoleon's mistakes?
What did he do England?
Wherewas Napoleon sent?
What was the Civil Code?

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Creating a Tombstone: the French Revolution

Creating a Tombstone: the French Revolution

1)      Choose a person/thing from the French Revolution
a.       Louis XVI
b.      Marie Antoinette
c.       Charlotte Corday
d.      Jean Paul Marat
e.       Olympe de Gouges
f.       Georges Danton
g.      The Bastille
h.      Maximillian Robespierre
i.        French Monarchy
j.        National Assembly
k.      Legislative Assembly
l.        National Convention

2)      Using your tombstone, make a tombstone for that person.  Include:
a.       name
b.      dates (birth, death)
c.       who/what they were
d.      why they were important
e.       how they died/ how it ended

3)      Use colors & image to make it look good.


If you use pencil, make sure you go over it with pen at the end.  

Due at the end of class 10/15

Thursday, October 1, 2015

French Revolution Timeline

1740: War of Austrian Succession – France goes into debt
May 1770 – Louie marries Marie Antoinette
1774 – Louis XVI takes power
1776 – American Revolution begins
1778 – France gives aid to the colonists, goes further into debt
1783 – Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution…the colonists freedom makes the French people jealous
1786 – France is broke
1787 – the government works to crate a new tax plan to help the country get money
July 2-parliament rejects the new tax law
Aug 6-Louis calls an impromptu parliament who passes it. Parliament declares Louis’s move illegal
Aug 15- Louis disbands parliament
1788 (Dec) The Minister of Finance, Jacques Necker, doubles the representatives of the third Estate in the Estates General
1789 – (May 5 ) Estates General meets
June 10 – The third estate’s vote is vetoed by the 1st and 2nd estate
Jun 17 –upset by their lack of power, the 3rd estate declares itself a National Assembly
June 20 – the national assembly is locked out of the meeting house and signs the Tennis Court Oath, declaring that thy will continue to met until they sign a constitution
Members of the other estates join the national assembly
July 14 – a large crowd storms the Bastille
July 17 –beginning of the Great Fear
August 4 –August decree –abolition of feudalism
Aug 26 – Assembly adopts the declaration of the rights of man and citizen
October 5-6 – Paris Mob forms; the women march to Versailles and take the king hostage and move him to Paris; Louis agrees to pass the August decrees
November – Church property and money is taken by the state
1790 –July 12 – Civil Constitution of the Clergy
1791 –Jun 20-25 – Louis and his family attempt to flee…they’re captured and brought back to Paris
Oct 1 – National Assembly disband – Legislative Assembly is formed
1792 – Jan – March: food riots in Paris
August: storming of the palace – Louis and his family are arrested and taken into custody
September - September massacres – half the population of Paris is executed.
Sept 13 –Louis accepts the Assembly’s constitution.
Sept 20: National Convention is formed, made up of elected French men, mostly of the Jacobin Cordelier, and Girondin clubs.
Sept 21 – monarchy is abolished
1793 – Jan – Louis XVI executed
July – Robespierre takes control of the Committee of Public Safety
July 1793 – 1794 – Reign of Terror
1794 – July 28 - Robespierre executed; reign of terror ends
1794 – 1795 – Thermidorian Reaction: marked the return to moderation; the focus went back to how to fix the economy of France
1795-1799 – the Directory rules France
1799 – Napoleon overthrows the government and takes control of France

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Chapter 2 Study Guide

Know these people:
Isaac Newton
Voltaire
John Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Charles I
James I
George III
Thomas Jefferson
Oliver Cromwell
Rump Parliament
Framers

Know these documents:
Declaration of Grievances
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights (English)
Articles of Confideracy
Act of Supremacy
Social Contract

Know these events:
Why did William and Mary take over England?
Why did the Framers not want a strong central government?
Where did the Enlightenment start?
Whose ideas are in the Declaration of Independence?
Whose ideas are in the Constitution?



Friday, September 18, 2015

2-3: The American Revolution

The American Revolution
Step 1:
• England sends people (COLONISTS) to the colonies to get raw materials (goods, supplies)
Step 2:
• The French and English fight over the colonies. This is the French & Indian War,
• The English win and get Florida and Canada
Step 3: The Stamp Act
• The French and English fight over the colonies. This is the French & Indian War,
• The English win and get Florida and Canada
Step 4:
• – After the people in the colonies got mad, Parliament took the Stamp Act away (repealed).
Step 5: Tariffs
to make money and make sure that the colonists were buying British goods, heavy taxes were put on all goods.
Step 6:
• – To make colonists happy, the king agrees to take away all taxed accept the Tea Tax
• The tea tax made it so that English tea was cheaper than American tea
Step 7: Boston Tea Party
• Mad because they were not being treated fairly, some colonists dressed up as Indians and threw tea in the harbor.
Step 8: Intolerable Acts
• King George is angry. He took away all of the rights of the people.
Step 9:
• 1st Continental Congress
• The colonists meet and write a letter to the King. They also form small local armies (militias)
Step 10:
• – King George sends troops to make sure that the people don’t fight back. This leads to…
Step 11: Battle at Lexington
• British troops are sent to take away all of the militia’s guns. They fight the colonists, and by the time they got to where the weapons are stored, the colonists have moved them.
Patriots: wanted independence\
• Thomas Paine: “Common sense” compared England to tyrants
Loyalists: wanted to remain loyal British citizens
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Step 12: 2nd Continental Congress
• People from each colony meet, construct plans for their next move, and create the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
• Written by Jefferson
• Said that the colonies were independent
• Restated natural rights
• Also a declaration of war

A mismatched War
• British army: fit, well trained, lots of supplies
• Continental army: no real military training, small, brand new army
• Why did We win?
– Home team advantage
– Support from other countries
After the War
• A new gov’t was needed.
• Articles of confederation: 1st constitution (1781)
– Didn’t meet the needs of the country
– No strong central gov’t
The Constitution
• Federal system: shared power between national & state gov’t
• 3 branches of gov’t
• Outlined the powers of the federal & state
Bill of Rights
• 1st ten amendments
• Gave freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly, among other things
• Embodied the ideals of the enlightenment
Long Term Effects
• Served as the inspiration for later revolutions in Latin America, the French revolution, and as a model for governments in Asia and Africa

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Foldable: Revolutions

Step 1: Fold the paper in half hot dog (lengthwise)
Step 2: still folded in half, fold it in 3
Step 3: Unfold  in each space, fill in one of the following  revolutions:
               Glorious Revolution
               American Revolution
              French Revolution

Step 4:  Unfold the paper -inside fill in information on the revolution as we talk about it.
          Include:
           -Dates
          -Who was involved
          -Major Documents
         -What happened

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

2-2: The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

What is the Enlightenment?
• A philosophical movement
• Started in France
• Leaders = philosophes
– Writers, professors, journalists reformers
• Inspired by the scientific revolution
• Heroes: Isaac Newton; John Locke

Rationalism, based on the teachings of the ancient Greeks, became the main philosophical method of the Enlightenment.

The Scientific Revolution
The scientific method is a systematic way to carry out research.
Use of the scientific method led to many great discoveries.

Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the Earth moves around the Sun.
The physician Vesalius dissected corpses to study basic human anatomy. He is now known as the "Father of Modern Anatomy."
The astronomer Galileo Galilei improved the telescope and supported the findings of Copernicus.

Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and philosopher.
Using intensive experimental methods, Newton discovered the three laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation.

Newton’s work is considered the backbone of modern mechanics.

The Enlightenment
Salons
In 18th-century France, salons were places for Enlightenment thinkers to come together and discuss new ideas. They were hosted by women known as salonnières.
Salon is the French word for drawing room.

The Philosophes
The philosophes were a group of 18th-century intellectuals.
They promoted reason, knowledge and education as the way to overcome superstition and ignorance.
Many of the philosophes wrote plays, novels, and reference books to avoid open confrontation with the church.
Natural Rights
Thomas Paine believed that governments do not give people rights, but that people are born with natural rights, some of which they voluntarily give up to governments.

Thomas Jefferson included the natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Hobbes also believed that if people want to live peacefully they have to give up some natural rights.

John Locke thought that the three most important natural rights are life, liberty, and property.

Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651.
Hobbes wrote that without government, human life would be "nasty, brutish, and short."
To escape this, humanity accepts a social contract with an authority to ensure peace and protection.

John Locke
Theory of the social contract
Theory of toleration
Belief that all men are created free and equal
Belief in the separation of church and state
Empiricism: using experience to find truth
John Locke’s ideas directly influenced the French, American, and Latin American revolutions.
His ideas can be found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

Voltaire
• Middle class Frenchman
• Wrote all kinds of documents
• Thrown in prison & exiled
• Inspired by the English freedoms
• He opposed the Catholic Church because they supported absolutism
• Wrote Treatise on Toleration
• Was a deist – god make the world & left it alone to run, like a clock

Montesquieu
• A French noble
• Wrote Spirit of the Laws about government
• 3 basic governments:
– Republics for small states
– Monarchies for med states
– Despotism for large states
• England was an ideal monarchy
• Believed in separation of powers – dividing up government between branches so 1 group/person can’t take control
• This created a system of checks & balances
• Used in the development of the American government

Rousseau
• Poor Frenchman
• Wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind – people made laws to protect their stuff
• Social Contract – a society makes an agreement to be governed by the general will of the people
• He wrote Emile about education – it should foster kids’ natural instincts
• Looked for a balance between emotion & reason

Adam Smith
• An English economist
• Believed in laissez-faire = letting the people do what they want
– Gov’t shouldn’t interfere in the economy
– It should just control: army, public works, & police

Cesare Becerra
• Wrote On Crimes and Punishments
• thought that harsh punishment didn’t stop crime
• Against capital punishment

Denis Diderot
• Wrote a 28 volume encyclopedia, on everything he could think of
• It took him from 1751 to 1772

Mary Wollstonecraft
• Leader of the movement for women’s rights
• Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women
• thought it was stupid that people thought that the kings shouldn’t have total power over people thought that men should have total power over women
• Believed that the Enlightenment was based on human reason, and since women were human, they should have equal rights

Newspapers & Literacy
• During this period, literacy (the ability to read) goes up
• This is due to the wider availability of reading materials
• The first newspaper was printed in London in 1702
• Magazines were another new product
• Both were cheap, some papers were free

Enlightenment in America
• Colonists were exposed to Enlightenment writings from England
• Thomas Jefferson & James Madison were influenced by Locke’s ideas
• The Declaration of Independence is heavily influenced by Locke