Banner Requirements:

Name of your group

A slogan for your group

A symbol that represents your group

A list of AT LEAST three suggestions for

solving the current financial crisis

Do you want to vote by ORDER or by

HEAD?

Stage Two Wrap Up

Questions – LEFT Side

• How did it feel to be a monarch during the

Meeting of the Estates General? The

controller general? A noble? A member of

the clergy? A peasant?

• For those who chose to meet as a separate

body, how did it feel to take that action?

• For those who chose not to become part of

the revolutionary movement, how did it feel

to see so many people move toward

revolution?

• Who might have the most power in society

after the Meeting of the Estates General?

Who might have the least?

The French Revolution –

Overview Notes – Right Side

Meeting of the Estates General

King L calls meeting of Estates

General

– Estates General: a medieval

representative body. It had not

met since 1614

Divided France into 3 estates:

– First estate: clergy-enormous

wealth and privilege

– Second estate: nobility-received

top jobs in govn’t, army courts

and church

– Third estate: commoners- some

bourgeoisie (bankers, lawyers,

doctors, journalists) but mostly

peasants, street peddlers,

construction, farming, factory

work

“The Third Estate Awakens”

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The Tennis Court Oath

Fed up with voting by order,

the Third Estate adopts the title

“THE NATIONAL

ASSEMBLY” and declares

itself the true representative

body of France!!!!!!

– Majority of clergy joined

June 20, 1789 – Tennis Court

Oath: pledged never to disband

until a constitution was written

“The Oath”

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Stage Two Journal Writing- LEFT Side

Assume the role of the character you played

in stage two and write a journal account of

the events you experienced as if you were

living in France at that time.

French Revolution Video Clip –

Left side

Record notes (in bullet form) under the following titles:

Describe the economic conditions in France during 1788-1789.

Who was Jacques Necker?

Background notes on Maximillian Robespierre.

The Storming of the Bastille

By July 1789 – ¼ people unemployed

Bread prices soared – many without food

Rumor – king’s troops coming to attack Paris

JULY 14, 1789 – hundreds march to the BASTILLE (medieval fort and prison)

– Soldiers fire on crowd from the Bastille

– Crowds take over and news spreads…..the peasants REVOLT

The French Revolution officially begins (July 14, 1789)

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The Constitution

National assembly est. a

CONSTITUTIONAL

MONARCHY

– Law-making power =

national assembly

– King is head of state and

could VETO

– Solve financial crisis =

seize land of church and

nobles that fled France

King L eventually accepts the

constitution in 1791

The March on Versailles

Continued financial crisis

7,000 women march 12

miles to Versailles and

invade palace

King promises bread and

returns to Paris with

women

King and family will

never return to Versailles!

“Girl Power!”

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Video

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