unit 1

• ORDER OF THE CONTROL GENERALS:

  Turgot, calonne, necker
• Taxes were collected by the system known as
• Marie antoinete fall out with Necker due to exposing royal finances to public attention.
• Calonne called assembly of notable to pass his reforms.
• Unemployment rose due to treaty of eden.
• What percentage of peasant owned their own land?

  33%
• From 1700 to 1780 the middle class has increased from 700,000 to 2,300,000.
• The interest on Government debt was 50% of the amount raised by taxation.
• Who were the sans-culottes?


  People who worked in trade in the poorer areas of paris and were politically radical.
• ... was created as a result of of the storming of the bastille.
• In which year was the fall of the bastille?

  1789
• Who were the national guard?


  A citizens military comanded by Lafayette.
• what was the name of the power that meant the king had the right to arbitraty arrest?

  Letters de cachet
• second estate included hereditary aritocracy.
• Rosseau is most famously known for the social contract.
• Gabelle was a tax on salt.
• What happened on the 15th of August 1787?


  ..
• 20th June 1789 was tennis court oath.
• what was Compte Rendu?

  Necker's report on the royal finances.
• 17th June 1789 third estate vote to call themselves "The National Assembly"
• What did Louis order in the seance royale?

  3 estates to seperate.
• What was the Great Fear?

  Peasant uprising in the countryside- 20th July - 6th July August 1789
• Royal family was forced to live in tuileries
• What happened from the 4th August 1789 in the Assembly?


  August decrees.
• What did Louis do when reform plans were rejected by the Assembly of Notables?


  dismissed the ministers
• Rousseau->"Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains"