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Key Concept

The French Revolution posed a fundamental challenge to Europe's existing political and social order. Claiming to defend the ideals of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte imposed French control over much of the European continent that eventually provoked a nationalistic reaction.

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Important Files

French Revolution Study Guide
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Chapter 19 Concept Outline
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Homework Assignments

​Assignment 1: Causes of the French Revolution

• MindTap: Setting the Scene: Partners in Uprising
• Take notes on the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution using:
  • Spielvogel pages 567-570 (include the impact of the American Revolution)
  • Crash Course: French Revolution
  • The Old Regime
• MindTap: Pre-Revolutionary France

Assignment 2: The Liberal Revolution

• Take notes on the liberal phase of the revolution using:
  • Spielvogel pages 570-576 (stop after the writing of the Constitution of 1791)
  • The Estates General of 1789
  • The National Assembly
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen​

​Assignment 3: The Radical Revolution

• Take notes on the radical revolution using:
  • Spielvogel pages 576-579 (stop before the Reign of Terror begins)
  • The Civil Constitution of the Clergy​
  • Headless Monarchy

​Assignment 4: The Revolution Unravels (Or Does It?)

• Take notes on the Terror and its aftermath using:
  • Spielvogel pages 579-586
  • Reign of Terror
• MindTap: The French Revolution

Assignment 5: Napoleonic France

• Take notes on Napoleon's domestic rule using:
  • Spielvogel pages 586-590
• Why Napoleon Merits the Title "The Great"

Assignment 6: Napoleonic Europe

• Take notes on Napoleon's conquests and downfall using:
  • Spielvogel pages 590-593
  • History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Ten Minute History: French Revolution and Napoleon
• MindTap: Napoleonic Europe

​Assignment 7: Study for test

• Review class and reading notes
• MindTap: Revolutionary Documents
• MindTap: Chapter 19 Quiz

Interesting Articles

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• Rethinking Napoleon's Roots
• Austerlitz: The Battle of Two Emperors
• In Germany, Santa's Sidekick Is a Cloven-Hooved, Child-Whipping Demon

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Primary Sources

• ​​Jacques Necker, Preface to the King's Accounts
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
• Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
• J.G. Milligen, The Revolutionary Tribunal 
• Maximilien Robespierre, Speech on Revolutionary Government
• The Temple of Reason
• Napoleon Bonaparte, Proclamation to the French Troops

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Other Resources

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