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The king was in trouble. The nobilitywas not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate.
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King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd estate. Had not met in 175 years.
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Proclaimed themselves legistalture, by establishing the National Assembly. They started making laws for France.
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Because they were kicked out of the meeting, they met inside a tennis court, and would not leave until they wrote a Constitution for France.
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It was a powerful symbol of Revolution. Peoples opressions were showed, and they showed King Louis XVI who was "boss".
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Violence from massive amount of fear, whether be true or not which caused mass chaos.
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Members of the lower classes getting power and influence creating a new government with a good social structure.
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Basic principles of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, and faternity. They had realized that all men are created equally, but none of this applied to women.
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The women pushed King Louis XVI into moving back into Paris and live in Tuileries palace with his family.
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This pushed the Revolution leader to take bigger and broader steps. Anticlerical measures passed, and churches were seized and with that land they sold it to pay off debt.
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They created the Legislative Assembly once the constitution was adopted, which helped gained broad voting rights, but help gained them a sense of power.
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This caused the restriction of power of the monarchy, and with no power it caused the royal family to leave but they eventually got caught and returned.
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It angered the French even more believing the wealthy is still opressing the people.
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Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children get thrown into prison, and are thought of as commoners from now on. The Legislative Assembly is powerless, and a new election of legislature is put into place with a radical form.
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Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarcy and establish the first Republic. Royal family improsined.
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France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders.
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The king was put to trial and executed, soldiers lined the streets, tried to give a speech of innonce some people were basically seen as savages. But the French viewed it as sense of liberty.
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This committee helped to manage the military defense, and there was a period of changes with the government, that lead to much instability.
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This allowed the arrest of anyone who was suspected of being against the government. People who acted against the government were called Revolutionaries.
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The actions caused through the Reign of Terror resulted in 17,000 deaths. Most of them were unnecessary along with being cruel and harsh.
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The Directorate was corrupt, and caused more corruption throughout this time, and trobules kept increasing. This ended with a government that had she same qualities of Old Order.
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It was a forced transfer of power not consents by the French people. They wanted stability and peace that Napolean promised.
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Napolean Bonaparte started conquering more and more places in Europe, causing war trhoughout and more land to have power over.
