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Deficit Spending
King Louis the 16 left France deeply in debt. The seven years war took place under his regin and made France in debt. -
Louis XVI calls the estates general
The people of Fance are unhappy with the way the country is being ran. Each state had met an voted. -
Taking Bastille
More than 800 Parisians gathered outside the Bastille an demanded weapons and gunpowder that were believed to be stored there. -
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National Assembly Acts
Rights of Man made it so every man was equal. Womens March was an act made by agery women upset of the cost of bread. Church Under State Control made it so Preists an Bishops have to be eleceted an salaried man. Constitusion; set up an absolute monarchy -
National Assembly Acts
The assembly did what it intended to do. They made the constitution so the Legislature Assembly could make laws, collect taxes and make war and peace decisions. -
Threats
Austria, Frances rival at the time then escape planned fail and Austria's emporer (Marie Antoinettes brother) and the king of Prussia threaten to intervene and protect the French Monarch. -
Radicals Declare War
Sans-culottes which means "without breeches" and instead of breeches they wore long trousers. Sans-culottes were the people that made the revolution more radical and out of hand then it should have been. They wanted elected representatives to be in government. -
Monarchy is abolished
Parisians were out of control they killed the kings guards an they attacked prison that held nobles accused of political offenses. -
Nationalism
Revolution and war gave french people strong sense of nation identy. The French attacked civic festivals that celebrated the nation and the revolution. 1793 France became a nation in arms. Nationalism means basically that you have pride in your country. -
Robespierre and the reign of terror
Robespierre and his reign was in fact terror thousands of people died. He had the king and queen sent to death and the giletein choped there heads off. It was a very bad time for france while Robespierre was in control. -
3rd stage of Revolution
The 3rd constitution sins 1789. 5 man directory an 2 house legislature elected by males with property, they held power from 1795 to 1799. Napolean became ruler of france.
