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suffrage, voting, too, indirect, remaking, recognize, equal, abolition, compensated, 1791, abilities, half, 1790, troubled, menu, culottes, Bastille, Danton, Third, radical, regeneration, Revolution, feudalism, Caribbean, Protestants, completely, pride, rights, million, Cordeliers, active, economy, Brissot

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one of the great hopes of the                     Revolution of 1789 was a new era of

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fraternity

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harmony

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where members of the privileged orders would join with members of the           Third Estate in creating a new and regenerated France

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everyone could take advantage of their                   abilities in a new world of liberty and equality

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the National Assembly engaged in the task of regenerating and                 remaking France

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sources of tension

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abandoning                   feudalism

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small village: Camps-sur-l'Agly

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in one of the poorest parts of France

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door with carving above it

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someone in that village had decided to                   recognize what the revolution had achieved

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a rough carving of the                 Bastille above the doorway

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yet it already indicates one of the tensions yet to be resolved

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the poor believed one of the most important achievements of the revolution was the                   abolition of feudalism

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the Lords believed that the harvest dues needed to be                       compensated before they could disappear completely

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was an ongoing issue

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religious freedom

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across the southern part of the country

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many Protestants

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Rights of Man and Citizen made clear that in the future people could not be                 troubled because of their beliefs

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but in the south there are tensions

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Mountauban and Nîmes

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anxiety and suspicions by the Catholic population who often work in textile houses owned by                       Protestants

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        1790 resulted in violence

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active vs. passive citizens / universal                 suffrage

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a distinction made by the National Assembly

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Georges             Danton

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argued that the people who made the revolution should not be precluded from             voting

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in 1791, the Legislative Assembly was chosen by a process of                 indirect election

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the Electors of the Assembly were themselves elected by             active citizens: male citizens whose annual taxes equaled the local wages paid for three days of labor

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this disfranchised about         half of the male citizens of France

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even higher economic requirements for the Electors and the members of the Assembly left only about 50,000 eligible men in a country of some 25               million people

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founds the                     Cordeliers Club

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still standing in Paris as part of the National Institute of Medicine

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in an old convent that is sold off in 1790

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where radical actives to push harder for the rights of passive citizens to be respected

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        menu peuple

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starting to demand their             rights

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are given a different title, "sans-                culottes"

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people who don't wear the fancy knee breeches and stockings

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they simply where trousers

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a term of condescension from the well-to-do but the lower classes increasingly take it as a term of           pride

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slavery

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the Declaration of the Rights of Men had said that all people were born           equal

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half a million slaves in the French                   Caribbean countries

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1791 a powerful, divisive debate with speeches by e.g.               Brissot said that if there is hesitation on giving blacks freedom than the values of the revolution could not be said to be logical

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or to be in tune with what is desired in 1789

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slavery is incompatible with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

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others argue that it would be terrible for the French               economy to have slavery in those colonies abolished

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others say that slavery is wrong but it will take time to abolish                     completely

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May         1791, slaves who have become free or born or those born from freed slaves, will be recognized as citizens

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so for the poor and slaves, the revolution is not yet over

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there are unresolved questions

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for many other people, on the other hand, the revolution had already gone       too far

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it's already been too               radical in the changes that it's introduced