French Revolution

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    Deficit spending by the govenment and Economic Reform

    The goverment was in debt for the 7 year war and the American revolution drained alot of their money. The goverment was broken down to 3rd estates (The high, The middle, and the peasent) only the 3 estates payed taxes not the 1st or 2nd.
  • Louis XVI Calls the Estates-General

    The goverment was spending to much money so King Louis XVI. He hired a guy named Jaque Necker. Jaque tells the king to meet the estates gernel. So King Louis XVI tells the 3 estates to write a notebook on their greivences.
  • Parisians storm the Bastille

    People wanted to get in for ammo and to realise all the peopl but they would not let them so the people broke in they found no ammo and only realised a few people.
  • Rights of man

    The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man. so they made 17 rights for men in the united states
  • Women's march

    A crowd of women demanding bread for their families gathered other discontented Parisians