French Revolution

By lkk8
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    enlightenment

    a time when new ideas provoked the questioning of the need of a monarch.

  • death of King Louis XV

    died of smallpox. His grandson, King Louis the XVI was a weak ruler.

  • natural disasters

    these disasters killed crops which made the cost for bread skyrocket.

  • an increase in taxes

    King Louis the XVI increased taxes, the peasants were not happy

  • the confrontation of the king

    7000 women went to the kings palace in Versailles and made him come back to Paris

  • the making of the guillotine

    this machine was an execution device
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    French Revolution

  • the tennis court oath

    this oath was an oath to continue meeting until the king gave in

  • the creation of the national assembly

    the national assembly was a form of government

  • the raiding of the Bastille

    this event was an effect of the bubbling anger of the people and they raided a prison called the Bastille

  • the new constitution

    this constitution made the king a simple figurehead

  • kings failed attempt to flee Paris to Austria

    the king and his family tried to flee Paris to escape the revolution, but they got caught in Varennes.

  • the champ de mars massacre

    this massacre was a dividing line between the moderates who didn't want the king dead and the radicals who did

  • the outlaw of the catholic church

    the catholic church was outlawed and their treasures destroyed.

  • the declaration of war

    France declared war on Austria
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    the September massacres

    the prisoners of many prisons were tried and executed on the spot

  • the execution of the king and queen

    the king and queen were executed by guillotine
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    the reign of terror

    this time was when 40,000 people were killed by the guillotine
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    the white terror

    in this time many of the allies of Robespierre were executed or beaten

  • Napoleon's coup d'etat

    Napoleon took over the french government and became dictator of France