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Deficit spending by the government and Economic Reform
By 1789, when the government would get income, half of that when to the dept that thet were in, They spent more money than they could. -
Third Stage of the Revolution
Moving away from the excesses of the Convention, moderates produced another constitution. -
Louis XVI Calls the Estates-General
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Parisians storm the Bastille
Paris seized the spotlight from the National Assembly. The Bastille was a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for polictial and other prisoners. -
National Assembly Acts (Rights of Man, Woman's March, Church, Constitution)
Right's of Man - At the start of the constitution, the Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. -
National Assembly Acts (Rights of Man, Woman's March, Church, Constitution)
About six thousand women marched 13 miles in the pouring rain from Paris to Versailles. They wanted to see the King, they were shouting "Bread!" -
Threats from abroad
The king of Prussia and the emperor of Austria issued the Declaration of Pilnitz. -
Civil War
The Radicals fought the -
Monarcht is abolished
Well-trained Prussian forces were cutting down raw French recruits. Royalist officers were deserting the French army. -
Spread of Nationalism
The government rallied sons and daughters of the revolution to defend the nation itself. -
Robespierre and the Region of Terror
Robespierre was one of the chief architects of the Region of Terror. Revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials.