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Causes of the French Revolution
1.Social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
2.Louis 16 was an ineffective ruler
3.Bankruptcy (Marie Antoinette & wars) https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist151s03/french_rev_causes_consequences.htm -
National Assembly Created
1.Used to be the Third Estate representatives
2.Was going to create a new constitution -
Tennis Court Oath
1.National Assembly got locked out
2.An oath taken at a tennis court near Versailles -
Attack on the Bastille
1.Mobs came to get prisoners taken by the king, and gun powder
2.800 men destroyed the Bastille by hand -
D.R.M.
1.Created by National Assembly
2.First step to writing a constitution for France -
The Bread March
1.It was a mob of 6,000 women
2.They marched to Versailles -
Royal Escape
1.King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette not wanting to lose their reign of absolute monarch
2.They failed to flee Paris. -
Death of King Louis 16
1.The National Assembly decided the only way to have the revolution was to kill the king
2.King Louis 16th was executed in public at Place de la Concorde -
Reign of Terror
1.Executions of enemies of the state
2.Anyone suspected of being against the revolution was killed -
Napoleon Bonapart Dictator
1.He was very effective
2.He was in the military
