Ms. Avar
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/ 5 / / Video Notes 2: Bye-Bye
King Louis / KEY
Instructions: Answer the following questions as you watch the video. (If absent, make an appointment to get answers from the sample binder and/or find them on the class website).
Listen to Ms. Jacobsen to complete #1-7 before continuing on the notes on your own…
1) What were the “Jacobins”, the radical debating society, named after? (40:00)The former monastery where they gathered / 2) What was Robespierre’s nickname? 40:20
The Incorruptible
3) What type of government is France now? 40:20)
A constitutional monarchy
This means that the King was forced to share power with the revolutionaries in the Assembly. / 4) Louis is forced to sign law after law that diminishes the power of what? (two) (40:39)
- Himself
- Catholic Church
5) Where does power fully shift after Louis becomes a traitor to France, tries to escape to Austriain order to develop a foreign army, and becomes a prisoner King? (43:10)
The Assembly / 6) What three things does Robespierre call for from the people? (43:30)
-Liberty
-Equality
-Fraternity
7) He also calls for universal suffrage (everybody can vote) and an end to slaveryin the French West Indies. (43:34) / 8) After the Age of Enlightenment, Robespierre wanted to discard against all remnants of the medieval past. What does he rail against most passionately? (42:51)
The death penalty
9) The guillotine was a killing machine that would kill everybody equally in their death without unnecessary suffering / “the national razor”? (44:15+) / 10) Upon which country does the Assembly / France declare war? (45:18)
Austria
11) Robespierre doesn’t agree with the war because he believes that if Austriadefeats the revolutionary army, who would reclaim the thrown in France?
Louis / 12) What happens when King Louis is officially stripped of his title? (49:00)
The FrenchRepublic is born
13) Robespierre’s opinion about the death penalty changes when Louis could possibly be killed.
He supports it nowbecause the “birthof a new republic can only start with the death of a king”) (49:15) / 14) In the Assembly, Robespierre and the Jacobins are locked in a battle with the moderates for control of the national government. (49:55)
15) Meanwhile on the streets, ordinary citizens did not want to be like the aristocrats. They wanted to be like ordinary people, the “true people” of France. They called themselves the “sancoulat “, which means:
“Those withoutknee pants (50:10) / 16) The Jacobins take control of the National Assembly. What do they change its name to? (51:00)
The Convention
17) D’antone, France’s Minister of Justice, motivates people to join war on the frontier. (51:36) / 18) What do the prisons start “bursting” with? Prisoners/traitors to the Revolution.
19) When Austria comes near Paris, D’antone fears the prisons will become hard to contain. He motivates revolutionary citizens, the “sancoulat”, to slaughter the people inside.
More than 1600 are left dead in a matter of days. (54:05) / 20) What country starts to make fun of the French in their media and calls them “animals”?
The British
21) The moderates want a republic & democracy, but do they want to actually kill the king?
No / 22) Robespierre believes that people must kill their king so the Revolution can win (56:15)
23) In history, what has been the only penalty for treason (betrayal of the country): (56:30)
Death
Was Louis found guilty of this? Yes / 24) Jean-Paul Marat – wanted to chop off the heads of traitors to the revolution. How many people did he NOW call to be executed in his newspaper and speeches?
200 thousand
25) Do all people support the radicals and their Reign of Terror? (1:00:50)
No / 26) What didCharlotte Corday expect when she assassinated Marat? (1:03: 10)
Peace
27) Who did Marat become symbolic of for the radical Republic? Christ / a god / 28) After Louis’s death, his children were ripped away from Marie Antoinette by the radicals. What eventually happened their oldest son?
He died of neglect and abuse by the revolutionaries
29) What happened to Marie’s beauty after the revolution?
(1:05:48)
It went downhill
What did she become at her trial? Unrecognizable / 30) What was Marie’s “fate”? (1:07:30)
To die
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