Study+Guide.+Objectives


 * __Study Guide: Objectives. __**

These are the Objectives that you are responsible for acomplishing and mastering by the end of the unit.

__**Lesson 1. The Old Regime: France at the End of the 18th Century.**__     
 * 1) Support Absolute Monarchy by using the idea of the divine right of kings.
 * 2) Analyze the way French society was organized in 3 estates by comparing the characteristics of the Clergy, the Nobles and the Commoners.
 * __Lesson 2. Background of the Revolution: the Need for Reform.__**
 * 1) Examine the causes of the French Revolution: the Enlightenment; an unfair tax system; the government´s bankruptcy; and the poverty and hunger of the commoners.
 * __Lesson 3. The Estates General__**
 * 1) Determine the factors that led to the meeting of the Estates General on 1789.
 * 2) Compare the different objectives of the king (to change the tax system), the nobles (to reduce the king´s power) and the commoners (to introduce reforms) within the Estates General and infer how this differences led to the French Revolution.
 * __Lesson 4. Periods of the French Revolution__**
 * 1) Memorize the main events of the French Revolution: the Tennis Court Oath; the National Assembly; the Storming of the Bastille; the Women´s March on Versailles; the Execution of King Louis XVI; the National Convention; the Reign of Terror; the Directory; the Consulate; the Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.
 * 2) Reconstruct the steps of the French Revolution by using the main events and the changes these events brought.
 * 3) Defend the importance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and judge the importance of this document by the end of the 18th century.
 * __Lesson 5. Consequences of the French Revolution__**
 * 1) Rate the consequences of the French Revolution giving your opinion about the changes the Revolution brought.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify some of the effects of the French Revolution in our world.