Chapter 19 and 20

  • french economy prospered

    the population grew from about 18 million people in 1715 to about 25 million in 1789
  • economic activity slowed

    poor harvests hurt the economy
  • louis XVI came to the throne

    he had the need for economic reform
  • scarcely begun work on a constitution

    the people of paris and peasants in the country side took the french revolution along a new, more radical course
  • reduced France

  • the constitution

    the national assembly finally gave france its first constitution
  • constant wars

  • Spain joined Prussia and Austria

    they joined in war against France
  • shaping Europe

  • the revolution

    hearing that the banquet was cancelled thousands of workers poured into streets shouting
  • Prussia

    a demonstration in Berlin turned into a riot when police opened fire on the crowed