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The estates general was a old government organization created at Versailles. The king was hoping to get more tax revenue, and the third estate wanted better representation. The first and second estates voted against the any changes the third estates wanted. The first and second estate had the majority in the votes and they wanted the same thing.
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This was a group formed by the third estate. There goal of this was to restrict the taxes and to bring down the power of the king. There goal here was to make things more fair for them and to get them more say. they called it the National Assembly because they were representing 96% of the nations people.
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the government locked them out of the national assembly and they had to move to a tennis court. This is where they swore that they would not give up and keep fighting for what they want. They made a oath to never separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until they had what they want.
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this was the third party storming the jail and freeing the 6 prisoners that were in there. They were wrongly put into the jail for speaking against the government. This was the third estates way of showing they that they were ready for whatever comes for them. This is also where they got weapons to fight back against the first and the second estate.
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The Constitutional Monarchy was formed when the third estate had overthrown the king. This was the first step in sharing some of the powers with the third estate. In doing this about 2/3 of the men got a vote. If you wanted to vote you had to pay minimal taxes.
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This event was the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of national convention. In this there was 749 deputies made up of the common folks. More specifically the business men and tradesmen and many other professional men.
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This is were King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette where took to the guillotine and were publicly executed.
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This was a time where non-supporters of the revolution were executed at the guillotine. The Reign of Terror was led by Maximilien Robespierre.
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The Reign of Terror Ended with the execution of Maximilien Robespierre.
