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Cianci - McKinney
The Reconstruction of France
Question | Answer |
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NCA policies pursued | Govt.- Constitutional Monarchy Religion- anti clericalism Economics- unregulated freedom Admin.- rationalism |
Assembly wanted to protect... | Property, civic equality |
Constitution of 1791 | Established a constitutional monarchy. Major political force was now a Legislative Assembly |
Active Citizens | Men who paid annual taxes. Were allowed to vote. Chose electors who voted for legislature |
Political authority was transferred to... | Men with land and commercial property |
Olympe de Gouges | died 1793. Butcher's daughter. Wrote Declaration on the Rights of Woman |
Declaration on the Rights of Woman | Ironically addressed to Marie Antoinette, mostly copied from Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen. |
Departments | Replaced Provinces, named after landmarks. |
Judicial reforms | Replaced with new courts, removed degrading punishments |
Chapelier Law | Enacted June 14, 1791. Forbade workers' associations. In response to urban workers protecting wages. |
Reactions to Roman Catholic land confiscation | Inflation, civil war, religious problems |
Assignats | Government bonds paid for by church land. Initially successful, but lead to over-issuing and inflation |
Civil Constitution of the Clergy | July 1790. Made the Roman Catholic Church a branch of secular state. Reduced bishoprics, one for each department. |
Counterrevolution | Negative response to CCC. |
Émigré | Aristocrats who left France to form counterrevolution. Included king's younger brother. |
Flight to Varennes | June 20, 1971. King Louis XVI and family left Paris as servants. Were discovered and escorted back to Paris. |
Declaration of Pillnitz | Issued by Leopold II. Would intervene to protect French royal family if other powers agreed. Would mean the undoing of all of the NCA. |