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Mini project: Reforming France

Mini project: Reforming France. No Real Plan. Revolutionaries seized Louis XVI and the royal family. The National Assembly had to create a government that would be strong to handle enemies from outside and counter-revolutionaries inside.

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Mini project: Reforming France

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  1. Mini project: Reforming France

  2. No Real Plan • Revolutionaries seized Louis XVI and the royal family. • The National Assembly had to create a government that would be strong to handle enemies from outside and counter-revolutionaries inside. • It still had the economic and health problems of the old France to deal with.

  3. Political Strains • Radical French leftists • Sans-cullotes (laborers, peasants) • Jacobins (middle class lawyers/professionals) • Girondists (middle class lawyers/professionals, opposed the Jacobins) • wanted to remove the king • and arrest the rich • (take their property to improve the economy and give to the lower classes.).

  4. National Assembly Actions and Reforms— • Mini-project: You are the French National Assembly • (divide into four committees: find how the National Assembly dealt with each issue—ten minutes) • You will research (7min) • Write your individual findings on a separate piece of paper • Put your name on that paper to turn in later. • You will prepare your sheet 8 min) • Put your committee’s actions on a piece of poster paper. • Your committee topic • Your committee statements/reforms • Write the page number (s) you found the information on.

  5. Action Committees • Committee on What to do about the Aristocrats: 5 • as assigned • Committee on Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man:6 • as assigned • Committee on What to do about the Church: 3 • as assigned • Committee on Government Reform: 9 • as assigned

  6. Goal of the National Assembly • Create a complete list of what the French Revolutionary Government would do about France…..

  7. Answers: Aristocrats Committee: • Removed privileges of the aristocrats. • Hunting rights, • must pay taxes, • no manorial dues • not above the law • Page(s)? • 115

  8. Answers: Declaration Committee: • Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen: • All men are born and remain free and equal in rights • They enjoy rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. • Government exists to protect the rights of citizens. • Any free man can hold public office. • Religious freedom. • Taxes paid according to ability to pay. • Page(s)? • 115-6 (more on p. 120)

  9. Answers: Church Committee • The Catholic Church • Put under state, not Rome’s, control. • Nationalized convents and monasteries • Bishops and priests were elected and paid government salaries • Page(s)? • 117 • EC: How did this turn more people, including revolutionaries, against the revolution? • Many who supported the revolution, were angered with the takeover of the Church. • This reduced popular support of the revolution.

  10. Answers: Government Committee • A constitution was written, 1791— • Limited monarchy • Legislative Assembly • Make laws • Collect taxes • Decide issues of war and peace • Lawmakers would be elected • Tax-paying males 25 and older can vote • Country divided into 83 equal administrative departments • Courts reformed • Laws reformed • Page(s)? • 117-8

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