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-Abolished guilds and labor unions
-Made constitution of 1791
-Declaration of the Rights of Man
-Made equality before the law (for men)
-Taxes levied based on the liability to pay -
When people got news that Louis XVI was going to use military force against the National Assembly -
-Were split into 3 groups that sat in different sections of the meeting hall
-Radicals that sat on left wanted to get rid of monarchy and wanted lots of change
-Moderates sat in the middle wanted some changes
-Conservatives sat on the right and wanted to keep monarchy but with little changes -
-Abolished monarchy
-Put Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on trial for treason -
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-Danton and his Jacobin political party came to dominate French politics
-Committee of Public Safety was headed by Danton (later by Robespierre
-Those accused of treason were tried by the committee Revolutionary Tribunal
-Roughly 15000 people died on the guillotine -
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-Started off in famine
-People were unhappy with government
-Used military force to stop uprisings
-Had elections when they didn't like results -
Napoleon overthrew the government which is known as coup d'état