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Lower classes are forced to work harder and pay more taxes
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The french aided the patriots in the revolutionary war causing them to go deep into debt
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The upper class refused to pay taxes to solve the debt.
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The harvest failed and it was a very hard winter, causing more debt
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The first second and third estates met to come up with a tax plan
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The National Assembly appoints a committee of thirty members to draft a constitution. Electors of Paris form a standing committee and a citizens militia
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The storming and fall of the Bastille
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The "Great Fear" begins. Peasants rob and burn some mansions of the rich and burn records of money owned.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued by the National Assembly.
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The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was passed and in 1791, the Constitution of 1791 was adopted.
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Called all men to war
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A new Constitution was adopted and it took effect after a reactionary rising in Vendemiare was suppressed by General Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The parliament is purged ruthlessly. Many deputies were labeled as royalists and sent to the penal colony of French Guinea.
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The fall of directory signals end of revolution
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Robespierre was arrested with his men and beheaded.