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Louis XVI called all the estates together to discuss solutions to the governments financial problems. It was the first meeting of all the estates in over 175 years.
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The National Assembly locked themselves in a tennis court until a new constitution was created.
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The people of Paris feared an attack. They stormed the Bastille prison to collect weapons and free the prisoners.
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A widespread panic thst surged through France, caused by rumors. This results numerous peasant attacks throughout France.
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A small group of deputies prepared a suprise move in the assembly with the abolishment of feudalism. What was left of serfdom and all personal servitudes was declared ended.
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This is the first step towards a new constitution, modeled in part of the Declaration of Independence. Making all man citizens equal before the law.
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The March on Versailles, was also known as The Bread March of Women. A hungry mob of 7,000 largely working-class women decided to march on the Versailles, they forced the royal famlily to return to Paris.
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Constituent Assembly regarded the church as a form of public authority. This document went far toward setting up a French national church.
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After revolutionaries capture the royal family trying to flee near the Netherlands boarder, they become imprisoned. This decreased their power and popularity.
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Louis XVI accepting the Constitution shows the beginning of the constitutional monarchy
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It was the legislature of France. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention.
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Revolutionaries started wearing red, white, and blue cockades, or badges, to identify themselves as revolutionaries. This fueled the revolution even more.
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mass killing of prisoners that took place in Paris, a major event of what is sometimes called the “First Terror” of the French Revolution.
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The Convention put Louis XVI on trial for treason, and unanimously pronounced him guilty.
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Fearing opposition within the country, revolutionary leaders suspended the constitution and anyone who critized the revolution was targeted.
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A battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris.
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Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France. With the establishment of the Directory, the Revolution might seem closed
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It was a battle fought between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon, and local Mamluk forces.
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Napoleon overthrows the Directory by coup d'état, trickery, and force and replaces it with the Consulate.