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It caused food shortages, unemployment and a rise in prices of food.
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France was at the edge of a financial collapse.
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Because they were not able to make changes in the normal meeting because they only had one vote.
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They wanted equalities so the Third Estate attacked the Bastille searching Louis XVI, who used force to stop them.
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There was no equality so the Third Estate proclaimed that all men were free and equal before the law.
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There was still a king but a Legislative Assembly, consisting of 745 representatives, would make the laws.
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To defend France from domestic threats, the Committee adopted policies that became known as the Reign of Terror, more than 40,000 people were killed.
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He was executed by the rebels to show that the king had no more power.
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Robespierre was obsessed with ridding France of all the corrupt elements. Many in the National Convention who feared Robespierre decided to act, lest they be the next victims.
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The executive was a committee of five called the Directory, chosen by the Council of Elders.
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To stay in power, the Directory began to rely on the military, but one military leader turned on the government. In 1799 the successful and popular general Napoleon Bonaparte toppled the Directory in a coup d'etat.
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He wanted peace for France
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It possessed ideas from revolutionaries, equality, religious toleration, and abolition of serfdom.
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He proclaimed himself to be emperor and governor of France to make it prosper.
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He attacked Britain to be the greatest power, but he didn't win because of Britain's sea power
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They refused to stay in the Continental System so Napoleon wanted to punish them. From 600,000 soldiers, only 40,000 came back alive
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France got a devastating defeat resulting in the exile of Napoleon
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Napoleon returned to Paris and he was accepted again as the Emperor
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He lost a decisive battle in Belgium resulting again in an exile in St. Helena were he died.
