HS201

Outline

I. The Beginnings of the Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution
	A. The War for Independence
	B. Forming a New Nation
	C. The Impact of the American Revolution on Europe

II. Background to the French Revolution
	A. Social Structure of the Old Regime
		1. The First Estate
		2. The Second Estate
		3. The Third Estate
	B. Other Problems Facing the French Monarchy
		1. Ideas of the Philosophes
		2. Failure to Make Reforms
		3. Financial Crisis

III. The French Revolution
	A. From Estates-General to a National Assembly
		1. The National Assembly
		2. Intervention of the Common People 
		3. Peasant Rebellions and the Great Fear
	B. Destruction of the Old Regime
		1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
		2. The Women’s March to Versailles
		3. The Catholic Church
		4. A New Constitution
		5. Opposition from Within
		6. Opposition from Abroad
	C. The Radical Revolution
		1. Domestic Crises
		2. Foreign Crisis
		3. A Nation in Arms
		4. The Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror
		5. The “Republic of Virtue”
		6. The Role of Women
		7. Dechristianization and the New Calendar
		8. Equality and Slavery
		9. Decline of the Committee of Public Safety
	D. Reaction and the Directory

IV. The Age of Napoleon
	A. The Rise of Napoleon
		1. Napoleon’s Military Career
		2. Napoleon in Control
	B. The Domestic Policies of Emperor Napoleon
		1. Napoleon and the Catholic Church
		2. A New Code of Laws
		3. The French Bureaucracy
		4. Napoleon’s Growing Despotism
	C. Napoleon’s Empire and the European Response
		1. Napoleon’s Grand Empire
		2. The Problem of Great Britain
		3. Nationalism
		4. The Fall of Napoleon

Identifications:

The French Revolution

Edmund Burke
Great Fear
The Mountain
Bastille
Girondists
Robespierre
Estates-General
Sansculouttes
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Declaration of the Rights of Man
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Jacques Necker
Reign of Terror
Thermidorian Reaction
The Directory
Constitution of the Year VIII

The Age of Napoleon

Admiral Nelson
Trafalgar
Abbe Sieyes
Napoleonic Code
Austerlitz
Continental System
Treaty of Tilsit
Hundred Days 
Waterloo
Elba
St. Helena
Wellington
Congress of Vienna

Written Homework

1. How did the financial crisis facing the French government lead to the
    revolution?
2. Describe the events and significance of 9 Thermidor.
3. Idents: tithe-Estates General-Tennis Court Oath-assignats
           Trafalgar-Leipzig-Elba-Concordat
4. What was the Continental System?
5. How did Napoleon remake the maps of Germany and Italy?