Stages+of+the+Revolution+Chart


 * __ The French Revolution __**

People are focused on enlightenment ideas such as liberty and equality || National Assembly Tennis Court Oath Bastille Great Fear Night of Aug 4, 1789 || Liberal Nobles Bourgeoisie Peasants || Conservative nobles King* || King recalls Nat’l Assembly (after Bastille) Elimination of feudal dues (after Great Fear) || -People become more focused on urgent needs like food and jobs rather than rights. || -Woman's march -Protesting high food prices -Royal family forced to move to Paris -Vulnerable to revolt -National Assembly also moves to Paris ||
 * ** Step 1: Collapse of the Old Regime ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Due to overwhelming debt and the need to reform the tax system, Louis XVI agrees to call the Estates General. || Nobles and bourgeoisie hope to limit power of king.
 * ** Step 2: Limited Monarchy ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * National assembly and Declaration of the Rights || -People hope to get more rights and limit the king's
 * Want to kill Mary Antoinette

the government run by the Committee of Public Safety causing uprisings in rural France || CPS hopes to crush small revolts against the new-formed government - want a democratic republic with justice and no rich or poor || 40,000 people killed and 300,00 jailed || Government of France and more specifically the CPS || Rural farmers and anyone who opposed anything about the new regime || Army goes by meritocracy, there is a 'visible hand' planned economy that peasants, capitalists, and other cities dislike - The revolution is now focused on equality of outcome and the economy is becoming more socialist || - Growing tension between Convention, sans-culottes, and rest of France. - Radical conspirators sent Robespierre to the guillotine. || - Reorganize the collapsed government. - Repair failing economy. || - New Gov't organization. - Creation of Directory. - Directory's use of the army to induce dictatorship. || - Radical Revolutionaries. - Directory. - Middle class (bourgeoisie) || - Common people. - Peace-loving people. - Napoleon Bonaparte. || - Napoleon overthrows Directory. and places himself as the Emperor of France. || - expand the frontiers of France || -Civil code of 1804 - Treaty of Amiens || -Members of the Legislative Assembly who were plotting against the Directory || -Conquered countries such as those in the Quadruple Alliance (Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain) || A constitutional monarchy headed by Louis XVIII is reinstated in France after Napoleon is imprisoned. ||
 * ** Step 3: The Terror ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Bands of people who oppose
 * Bands of people who oppose
 * ** Step 4: Thermidorian Reaction ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * - Robespierre's Terror
 * ** Step 5: Napoleon ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Napoleon overthrows the Directory, restores peace to France, and then crowns himself Emperor of France. || - put an end to civil strife in France to unify the people and consolidate his rule