Western Civilization II / Unit 7 WC2 0629 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Sequencing the Revolution, 1787 to 1795
The idea
The exam hands you the Revolution's events out of order and asks which came first. The method is three fixed points: the Tennis Court Oath of June seventeen eighty-nine, the republic of September ninety-two, and Thermidor in July ninety-four. Everything else falls into the three gaps.
In practice
Place seven events. The Bastille: July fourteenth, eighty-nine, weeks after the Oath. August fourth and the Declaration: the same summer, after the Bastille. The March on Versailles: October eighty-nine, after the Declaration. Varennes: June ninety-one, before the constitution of that October. War on Austria: April ninety-two, before the republic. The king's execution: January ninety-three, after the republic. The Committee of Public Safety: September ninety-three, after the execution and before Thermidor. The Directory: seventeen ninety-five, after Thermidor. The order reads Oath, Bastille, August, October, Varennes, war, republic, execution, Committee, Thermidor, Directory.
Where people slip
Two of the anchor's phrasings differ from the witness: September ninety-two was the Convention's proclamation, not a constitution, and the anchor's calendar mappings for months other than Thermidor are wrong. The order holds either way.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0605Louis XVI, the Notables, and the Estates General Revived
- 0608The National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath, June 20, 1789
- 0612The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, August 26
- 0618Varennes, June 1791: The King's Prestige Destroyed
- 0621September 1792: The Republic and Universal Manhood Suffrage
- 0622January 1793: The King Executed
- 0628Thermidor, July 1794, and the Directory
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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