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The king was in trouble. The nobility was 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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Heard rumors that the king hired foreign soldiers to punish them.
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Pledge signed by 576/577 people. Joseph Martin Dauch didn't sign because it wasn't sanctioned by the King.
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3rd Estaters invade the Bastille for cannons and guns to overrule the king for spending all of France's money.
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Peasants armed themselves in self-defence and attacked houses
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Eliminated feudal deus that peasants owed; landowners eliminated first estate's legal privleges.
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Defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal.
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Mob of women grew into thousands. Ransacked the city for weapons and marches into the palace of Versailles.
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and family try to escape Paris in order to start a counter-revolution
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Established popular sovergnity
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Provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law making
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50,000 troops from Australia were sent to France borders.
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Demanding of abolition from moarchy. 100/950 Swiss guards survived.
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Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic. Royal family imprisoned.
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France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders.
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Killed with the guillotine.
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Protects the republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.
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Individual freedoms which led to revolutionary paranoia.
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Death toll greater than 10,000.
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Only men who owned property were allowed to own land.
Passed financial reforms, improved trade; although wasn't an effective government. -
Napolean became dictator. The people willingly gave up some freedoms so that Napolean could bring peace off.
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Wanted to tell the world that he took his power, no one gave it to him.
