The French Revolution and the Origins of Human Rights Be familiar with • Be able to recognize, define, describe, memorize, recall • Assessed through matching, ordering or placing events in sequence or on a timeline, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice • Define: Cahiers de doléances; Three Estates; Estates General; National Assembly; Third Estate • Describe how the following contributed to the French Revolution: Abbe Sieyes; Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette; Maximlien Robespierre; Napoleon Bonaparte • Recall general causes of the French Revolution • Recognize the importance of major events in the French Revolution: Tennis Court Oath; Storming of Bastille; The Great Fear; Women’s March; Civil Constitution of the Clergy; King’s Flight to Varenne; attacks on the Tuileries; Reign of Terror • Recognize and distinguish political ideas of John Locke; Thomas Paine; Thomas Jefferson; Baron de Montesquieu; Cesare Beccaria; Mary Wollstonecraft; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Voltaire
Need to Know • Be able to explain, paraphrase, compare, distinguish, interpret, summarize • Assessed through writing, multiple choice, and in some cases, ordering events • Explain major ideas of the Declaration of Rights of Man • Distinguish between the major phases of the French Revolution and approximate time frame. • Explain the arguments for and against human rights being extended to Religious Minorities; Questionable Professions; Free Blacks and Slaves; Women • Distinguish between political and civil rights; • Summarize divine right theory; general will; human rights; natural rights
Big Ideas (Formulated as Questions) • Be able to interpret, evaluate, differentiate, organize, construct, formulate • Assessed through writing, discussion, debate • What are the arguments for and against human rights being extended to: Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions (group A), Free Blacks and Slaves (group B), and Women (group C)? Timeline: c. 1680s • Some of the major 1600s domestic events of the French Revolution • None of the wars fought by France are listed. 1760
5 May: First Meeting of Estates
General 1774 Enlightenment Era 20 June: Tennis Court Oath Era of Agricultural of Agricultural Era Revolution 14 July: Bastille Stormed 1789 17 July-3 August: Great Fear 1789 26 August: Decl. of Rights of Man Louis XVI 5 Oct: Women’s March 1700s 12 July: Civil Constitution of Clergy 1790 Political Clubs grow in power Sans Culottes politically active
20 June: King’s Flight to Varennes 1791 Aug: St. Domingue Slave Revolts September: Constitution accepted by king National 20 June: 1st Attack on Tuileries 1792 Revolution of Industrial Era 21 Sept. Convention 10 Aug: 2nd Attack on Tuileries 1792-26 Writes New 22 September: Republic declared Oct 1795 Constitution
21 Jan: Louis XVI Guillotined 1793 Sept: Reign of Terror Begins 16 Oct: Marie Antoinette Guillotined July: Reign of Terror de-escalated 1794
New Constitution and Directory 1795 1799 Napoleonic Era 1815 What you note depends upon the questions we seek to answer and their potential significance to answering the questions.