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Louis XVI was crowned the king of France on May 10th, 1774. He took on his grandfathers legacy.
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The American Revolution was a war that was fought for many years. The Americans won independence from Great Britain, creating the United States of America.
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The National assembly was formed by the third estate because they were angry. They were mad because they felt they were not being represented fairly. They made up over half the population and didn't have much of a say.
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Louis XVI assembled the three estates. The first estate was clergy, the second was nobility, and the third was the rest of the french population.
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After the third estate formed the National Assembly they created the Tennis Court Oath. The Tennis Court Oath vowed "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established".
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A state prison in Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.
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A group of French women were very angry over the over pricing and scarcity of bread.
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Revolutionaries wanted war because they thought war would unify the country, and had a genuine desire to spread the ideas of the Revolution all over Europe.
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King Louis XVI was executed by a machine called the guillotine. All the people cheered while he was being executed.
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The Reign of Terror was a period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established.
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The Thermidorian Reaction is the final act after the Reign of Terror. Robespierre and twenty-one associates including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was arrested that night and beheaded on the following day.
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French Revolutionary government set up by the Constitution of the Year III, which lasted four years, from November 1795 to November 1799. It included a bicameral legislature known as the Corps Législatif.
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The coup of 18 Brumaire gave Napoleon power as First Consul of France, and ended the French Revolution.
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Napoleon went to invade Russia resulting in the battle of waterloo. Napoleon was defeated then later exiled.
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The French's leader was Napoleon and was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington
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The National Convention was the second government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
