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France’s government sank deeply into debt
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Bankers refused to lend the government any more money
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Women marched on Versailles demanding that the national assembly take action to provide bread and then broke into the palace and demand that Louis and Marie Antoinette return to Paris
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the Directory was created
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen were created and stated that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” These rights included “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”
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The price of bread doubled and many people faced starvation.
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The first meeting in 175 years was held to create a tax on nobility
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a vote of the delegates of the Third Estate put an end to the absolute monarchy and started the beginning of a representative government.
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A mob searching for gunpowder and arms stormed the Bastille
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The legislative assembly was created
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Louis XVI attempts to flee France
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The Reign of Terror began
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Louis XVI was executed
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Establishment of 3 consuls
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Napoleon signed a Concordat with Pope Pius VII which established a new relationship between church and state. The government recognized the influence of the Church, but rejected Church control in national affairs.
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President Jefferson’s administration agreed to purchase
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The Napoleonic code was entered into force. It gave the country a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices. it also limited liberty and promoted order and authority over individual rights. For example, freedom of speech and of the press, established during the Revolution, were restricted. It also restored slavery in the French colonies of the Caribbean.
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Napoleon set up a blockade to prevent all trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations. Napoleon called this policy the Continental System because it was supposed to make continental Europe more self sufficient. Napoleon also intended it to destroy Great Britain’s commercial and industrial economy.
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Napoleon and his Grand Army of more than 420,000 soldiers
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King Fredrick William III of Prussia and Czar Alexander I of Russia gave Napoleon a small pension and exiled, or banished, him to Elba, a tiny island off the Italian coast.
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Gave Napoleon a small pension and exiled, or banished, him to Elba, a tiny island off the Italian coast.
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The Hundred Days War marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII