Read the primary sources and answer the questions in three 5-7 sentence paragraphs. Remember to use the “claim, evidence, warran
t” format to structure your arguments. Submit this assignment to Blackboard when you are finished. YOU CAN USE YOUR STUDY GUIDE. Good luck Source 1 “The revolutionary movement…was the result of demographic upheavals, or the rise of the bourgeoisie and the spread of ‘philosophic’ ideas…Thus the Parisian rising of July 14, resulting from the provincial insurrectional movements which had begun the previous January, provoked in its turn a great national revolutionary impulse which irrevocably overthrew the Old Regime and gave France a new aspect. The Fourteenth of July is indeed one the great days that made France.” --Jacques Godechot, French historian, The Taking of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, 1970
Source 2 “The convocation of a national representative assembly meant the end of absolute monarchy. It had finally succumbed to institutional and cultural paralysis. Its plans for reform fell with it. Nobody knew what the Estates General would do, or even how it would be made up or chosen. There was a complete vacuum of power. The French Revolution was the process by which this vacuum was filled.” --William Doyle, English professor of history, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, 2001 Source 3 “The French Revolution began because of a financial crisis. The debts of the French government far exceeded its ability to pay them.” --Sylvia Neely, American professor of history, A Concise History of the French Revolution, 2008 Use the excerpts above to answer all parts of the question.
Answer in complete sentences and explain your answers thoroughly. a. Explain ONE major difference between Source 1 and Source 3’s interpretation of the causes of the French Revolution. The main difference between source 1’s and source 2’s interpretation is that in source 2 they explain that the revolution began because of “a financial crisis” and in source 1 it explains that it began because of demographic upheavals. I personally believe that the revolution began because of financial crisis because the French government owed too much money therefore were in too much dept. b. Provide ONE piece of evidence from the Enlightenment to July 1789 in France that supports EITHER Source 1 or Source 3. c. Provide ONE piece of evidence from French Revolution, 1791-1799, that supports Source 2’s assertion that the French Revolution was an attempt to fill a power vacuum.
