APE Topic Nine Discussion 42

1. Explain how, though shouldering less debt than England or the Netherlands, France’s economy collapsed.

2. Describe how the conflict over taxes led to the calling of the Estates General in France.

3. Explain how calling the Estates General to order under the traditional organization led to revolt.

4. Outline the steps leading to the King’s shift toward the nobility in France.

5. Explain how difficult economic circumstances were aggravated by small harvests.

6. Explain how the storming of the Bastille saved the National Assembly.

7. Describe how the revolutions manifest itself in the agrarian sector.

8. Describe how the National Assembly was perplexed and what resolution of differences was made.

9. Summarize the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.

10. Outline what authors meant by “the rights of man.”

11. Describe how the leadership of the Revolution shifted from center to left.

12. Explain how the redistribution of power by the Jacobins led to their demise.

13. Discuss the shortcomings of the Constitution of 1791 and illustrate how its political structure was untimely.

14. Describe the modifications to the Great Declaration for practical reasons.

15. Explain why the debt was not repudiated.

16. Explain how the Constituent Assembly tried to pay the debt.

17. Describe how the lower class was increasingly frustrated by the Constituent Assembly.

18. Explain what is ironic about the banning of unions by the Constituent Assembly.

19. Analyze the practice of changing the symbols of a nation. Discuss the purpose of such behavior and the effectiveness of the practice.

20. Outline the perspectives held on the Church and the purpose of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

21. Explain how the Constituent Assembly’s plan for the Church backfired with the Vatican.

22. Discuss the difficulties posed for the Revolution by the “refractory Church.”

23. Evaluate the leadership of the first phase of the Revolution.