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You will be looking at two modules that
are related:
Module One
Document study:
The Origins of the French Revolution 1774-92:
Key issues:
What were the economic and social causes of the Revolution?
What were the political causes of the Revolution?
What was the nature of the Revolution during 1789-92?
Content:
• The social and economic problems of the ancien regime in France;
the impact of the Enlightenment
• Shorter term political causes of the Revolution; the impact
of the American revolution, the financial and political problems of
the Crown, the influence of Louis XVI, attempts at reform by Turgot
and Calonne
• The main revolutionary events of 1789-August 1792; the calling
of the Estates General, the Oath of the Tennis Court, the constitution
of 1791, the overthrow of the monarchy, the significance of riots and
direct popular action 1789-92
At the end of the year you’ll have to do a one-hour source based
paper.
Module two
The French Revolution 1789-95
Key issues
• What were the main features of the French Revolution of 1789?
• Why did the French Revolution become more radical up to 1794?
• What was the role of the Jacobins, Paris and the sans-culottes?
• What was the impact of war, economic crisis and religious division
on the course of the Revolution?
Content
The events of the French Revolution from the calling of the Estates
General to the creation of the Directory in 1795
The nature of the revolution of 1789, the constitutional monarchy, Republic,
Counter-revolution, Terror and Thermidorian reaction.
Political groupings, sans-culottes, Paris and the provinces
The exam will be 45 minutes long and you
will answer one question
“Be encouraged, all ye friends of
freedom, and writers in its defense! The times are auspicious. Your
labours have not been in vain. Behold kingdoms, admonished by you, starting
from sleep, breaking their fetters, and claiming justice from their
oppressors! Behold, the light you have struck out, after setting America
free, reflected to France, and there kindled into a blaze that lays
despotism in ashes, and warms and illuminates EUROPE!”
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