• Welcome Back • Title = Recipe for Revolution• SLOT 1 - Imagine the students at WHRHS

want to complete a revolution and take over the school…what ingredients are needed for the revolution to succeed?

• SLOT 2 - What difficulties would the students face in the revolution or the aftermath?

Day 56 Opening Question

• Title = French Rev Cartoons• What important details do

you see in these cartoons?• What are the main

messages in both of these cartoons?

• Analyze the political and economic causes of the French Revolution

• Chronicle the events of the Moderate Phase of the French Rev

1. How does European History reflect the political, economic, religious, social, artistic, and intellectual changes of western civilization?

2. How did the development of the modern European state from Feudalism to monarchy to “democracy” impact the current World Order?

3. How have international conflicts affect the Balance of Power in Europe throughout the modern era?

4. What role has military conflict played in European History?

• Kettle =• Fire =• Steam =• ??? =• What do

smart govs do?

• Population = 130K– What %

• Wealth = 10% of land wealth

• Taxes or ?– Tithe– Taille

• Overall… or ?

• 2 types of • Population = 350K

– What %• Wealth = 25-30% of

land wealth• Taxes or ?

– Taille?• Overall… or ?

(think PERSIAGM)

• Many “layers” to this estate…

• Population = ??• Wealth = ??• Taxes or ?

– Taille?• Overall… or ?

(think PERSIAGM)

• Bourgeois = middle class– bankers, merchants, lawyers,

doctors– 8% (2 mil) of population– Owned 20-25% of land

• Artisans and shopkeepers• Peasant farmers

– 80% of population– Owned 35-40% of land

• City Workers/Poor• Serfs

By the 1780s, what is the problem if France is divided into these 3 classes?

Are the conditions in the USA and the arguments made by the “99%” relatable?

1. Inspiration from a few places

2. Economic Crisis3. Bad Political Leadership4. Angry 2nd and 3rd Estates

(effects of Old Order)

• Enlightenment…• American Rev…

– French soldiers return with stories

– USA is first to try Enlightenment recipes… impact on France?• gets people thinking and talking

of new options (democracy)• French want to copy USA’s

Revolution…

• Deficit spending…?–government spends

more than it takes in–deficit spending leads

to…• debt needs to be paid

off…by who?• USA’s current debt is

about $17.3 trillion

• 2 places– Wars (which ones?)– Palace and Court

• How do you fix it the debt??– raise taxes and cut

spending • What is done instead?

– More borrowing done– Debt gets worse

• 1788 = 4 Billion Livres ($800 million)

• HALF the budget = ??

• Economic decline

• Bad Harvest in 1787 & 1788…– Bread Prices

• So? Who cares?

• So? What can they do?

• Louis XIV’s heirs stink– Louis XV (1715-1774) ran up debt– Louis XVI had good intentions but

was weak and dumb• French hate someone else too…

• What has not met in 175 years?– Estates General

• Charles de Calonne and Jacques Necker are both finance ministers to Louis XVI…

• Why are they mad?– Envious of who?

• Educated with what ideas?– These ideas will lead

them to want…

• Why are they mad?– Resentment of top 2 Estates– nobles could pay for best

jobs– only 3rd estate is taxed– Unfair life

• bread prices up…Inflation• Salaries don’t go up• poor can’t handle Inflation• Privileges given to 1st & 2nd

• In the French Revolution, both will work together– Who uses the

Pen?• How?

– Who uses the Sword?• How?