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Forces landowners to increase their sources of revenue: the lower class works harder and is taxed more.
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France supports Patriots in the American Revolution, leading to more national debt.
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The lifestyle of the monarchs, particularly the "Sun King" Louis XIV, is extravagant, costly, and financed by taxes.
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More military = more debt.
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Extreme winter, harvest fails, further angers the hurting poor. Food even more scarce and expensive.
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Appoints a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution. Proclaims itself the Constituent National Assembly, with full authority and power to decree laws. Demonstrations and speeches take place at the Palais-Royal. Electors of Paris form a standing committee and citizen's militia.
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Parisians, led by many women, march upon Versailles, force royal family back to Paris. Louis considered "prisoner" in Paris.
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Passed in 1790, adopted in 1791
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Believed they were intending to invade to help the king regain monarchy.
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Republic established.
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Sentenced 20,000 to 40,000 people to death. During this time, Revolutionary Tribunal sent state prisoners (revolutionaries) to the guillotine. Jacobins (other revolutionaries) left to deal with invasion, French natives who start a Civil War for monarchy, and revolts. Respond with bloody repressions.
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Republican armies in command, and Terror identified with ruthless and centralized revolutionary government. Any dissidence = counter revolutionary, Monteguards and extremists guillotined.
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Anarchy and inflation overwhelm the country.
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The fall of the Directory heralds the end of the French Revolution.
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Took effect after a reactionary rising in Vendemaire was suppressed by General Napoleon Bonaparte.