UNIT 2: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION



B. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION



B.1- In the timeline of the main events of the French Revolution and the First French Empire. Put these events in the correct places in the first column:
a)     Reign of Terror
b)    Flight to Varennes
c)     Congress of Vienna
d)    Prussia invades France
e)     Tennis Court Oath
f)     Spanish War of Independence
g)     Women´s march on Versailles
h)    Battle of Austerlitz

B.2- Now complete the type of political system in each period in the second column:
a)     Only men with property could vote
b)    All men could vote
c)     Dictatorship
d)    Power shared between the National Assembly and King

B.3- Which group, the Girondins or the Jacobins, had control:

a) during the Democratic Republic
b) during the Constitutional Monarchy
START OF REVOLUTION          Political system:

June 1789:
July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
Oct 1789:
June 1791:

Sep 1791: New Constitution
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

Aug 1792:
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Sep 1792: Monarchy abolished        Political system:
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

Jan 1793: Execution of King Louis XVI
1793-94:
July 1794: Execution of Robespierre
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1795: Directory established             Political system:
DIRECTORY (BURGEOIS REPUBLIC)

Invading European armies defeated
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1799: Napoleon´s coup d´etat             Political system:
CONSULATE

Napoleon is First Consul
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1804: Napoleon becomes Emperor
FIRST FRENCH EMPIRE

1805:
1808-1812:
1812: Napoleon invades Russia
1814-1815:

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