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deficit spending
King louis XIV, XV, and XVI spend way to much, and they don't take in as much money as they spend on wars and pleasure items. -
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Moderate phase of National assembly
This phase turned france into a constitutional monarchy -
Tennis court oath
The third estate declared themselves the national assemebely, and they secretly met in a tennis court. There they agreed to keep meating until they had a just constitution. -
Storming the Bastille
The people need gunpowder to use in there guns to fight in the revolution. They also here that troops will retake the capitol. so they take it over as a statement and for gunpowder -
Women march to Versailles
Women march from Paris to Versailles. 6 thousand march 13 miles because of the shortage of bread. -
Sans-cullotes
This gang faught to make sure that the republic was to be lead by a elected representitive instead of a monarch -
Escape
King Louis tries to escape from France and heads tword Prussia where his wife is from. They get within miles but there are spotted and dragged back to Paris again under control of the people. -
Declaration of Pilnitz
When the escape of Louis fails the monarchs of austria and prussia threatend to intervene with the french revolution to protect the french monarch. The revolutionaries took this as a threat. -
Constitution
The national asembely creates the constitution creating their own government -
Radicals take office
The legislative assembely took office. It survived for less than a year. The currency dropped in value making prices go up, cauing major food shortages. -
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The radical phase
violence led to the end of monarchy and the tyrany. -
war Begins
War between French revolutionaries and European Monarchs move from waords to the battlefeild. The French first declare war against Austria, Prussia, And brittan. Later more countries. -
Parisians storm Tuileries
Parisian people storm the royal palace of tuileries and kill all the kings gaurds. The royal family flees to the legislative assembely. one month later they stormed a jail killing 1200 nobles and priests. -
Establish a rebublic
This radical lead assembely decided to get rid of the monarchy and form a rebublic lead by an elected official. -
A King dies
The assembely kills King louis the XVI to death on count to being a traitor. -
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Reign of terror
This perod of time was a time of much death. most people were given a fast trial and sentenced to death by the "national razor" 300000 arested and 17000 executed -
Napolean drives out enemies
Napolean takes back france's port city of Toulon once under Brittish control. -
Robespierre gives a speech
Robespierre gives a speech on why terror was necessary to achieve a revolution -
Robespierre is arrested
Robespierre is arested because people want the reign of terror to end. the next day he is executed -
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Directory
The people of france revolted agianst exremism -
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directory is in power
directory of people elected hold power over france