a revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government: a great or complete change

the status quo is a term used to refer to the way things are or the existing way society is set up

a pamphlet is a small booklet or leaflet written to argue for or against an idea

when there is a great change in society it is known as a social upheaval

a constitution is a set of basic principles or laws that govern a nation

British responses to the French Revolution

History

This unit may inform pupils on British attitudes to Parilamentary reforms and social revolutions which may be helpful when they come on to consider resistance to women's suffrage 

Pupils will be familiar with the French Revolution from their prior study of the Enlightenment period (Y8). They will draw upon their knowledge of the political situation in Britain in the 17th century (Y8) to help inform their understandings of British attitudes to the revolutionary period.

How did Europe respond to the French Revolution?

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Which laws were brought in by the British government due to discontent caused by the French Revolution?

Was Edmund Burke for or against the spread of French revolutionary radical ideas?

Match the British political thinker to the pamphlet that they wrote.

In what year did the French people execute their king, Louis XVI?

Which group in French society broke away from the Estates-General and launched the French Revolution in 1789?

Which of these British political thinkers wanted to encourage the spread of radical revolutionary ideas from France to Britain?

Put these time periods into the correct chronological order.

During the Scientific Revolution of the 1500s, which of these people challenged the teachings of the Church by explaining that the Earth revolved around the Sun, rather than the other way around?

Which of the following thinkers do we class as belonging to the Enlightenment movement of the 1700s?

Match the events with the year they took place

What word is used to describe a country without a monarch?

little effect - monarchs remained calm despite revolutions in other countries

no effect - monarchs just ignored what was going on in other countries

large effect - monarchs worried that revolution would spread to their countries

What effect did revolutions that were happening all around the world have on monarchs in the 1700s and 1800s?

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision recommended

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