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Chapter 2 Guided Reading

 Objectives

1. List, describe, and compare the various movements of reform and revolution that occurred in the 1780’s.

2. Interpret the various stages of the French Revolution by applying Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of a Revolution

3. Evaluate the idea that the French Revolution was now only a Political Revolution but a cultural revolution as well

4. Identify the various groups that resisted the French Revolution and compare and contrast their various motivations.

5. Prioritize the various effects that the French Revolution will have on Europe

Topic A: The Revolutionary Wave, 1787–1789

1. Protesters in the Low Countries and Poland 749-752

2. Origins of the French Revolution, 1787–1789  752-756

Topic B: From Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1793

1. The Revolution of Rights and Reason 757-761

2. The End of Monarchy  761-763

Topic C: Terror and Resistance

1. Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety  763-765

2. The Republic of Virtue, 1793–1794 765-767

3. Resisting the Revolution  767-768

4. The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the Terror, 1794–1799 768-770

Topic D: Revolution on the March

1. Arms and Conquests 770-772

2. European Reactions to Revolutionary Change 773-776

3. Poland Extinguished, 1793–1795 776-777

4. Revolution in the Colonies 777-779

5. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte 780-782