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The third Estate decided to form its own National Assembly. Louis XVI decided to close the doors of where the Assembly met. The Third Estate moved to an indoor tennis court where they pledged not to stop meeting until they had given France a constitution. This became known as the Tennis Court Oath. -
The state prison in Paris called the Bastille, was stormed by radicals that were tired of the way things were. It had a large stash of arms and ammo. the event became one of the defining and starting moments in the French Revolution. -
the constitutional assembly got rid of feudalism. they got rid of tithes, which were payments to the church for land. this made it to wear peasants didn't rely on the second estate to have land. -
The French National Constituent Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution. -
Bad harvests in France had caused the price of flour and bread to increase dramatically and many citizens were starving. So a large crowd of protesters, mostly women, began to assemble at Parisian markets. After getting unsatisfactory responses from city officials, the women marched from Paris to the Palace of Versailles. They stormed the palace, killing several guards and demanded the king to “live among the people”. Louis XVI agreed to their demands and went to Paris with the mob. -
Austria had troops at the border of Austria and France and wouldn't leave so France declared war. Austria was worried about the queen marie Antoinette so they wanted to protect her. they also wanted the monarchy to be put back in power. -
the guillotine was first used on Nicolas Jacques Pelletier. the guillotine was the way that people were executed during the french revolution. thousands of people died from it in France. -
the king and queen were pt in prison. they didn't care about the financial crisis going on in France. the people wanted a form of a democratic government. they wanted people to be able to make decisions for France and not have just one person in charge. -
a period of time when thousands of people were being killed for anything. if anyone was suspected of supporting the monarch they were executed. neighbors were turning each other in just because they didn't like each other. -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed for treason. Louis had failed to listen to France's financial problems so the people of France decided that the royals were to be executed -
he was sentenced to execution by the people of France. he was becoming more of a monarch and not letting anyone have any power. he went crazy and trusted no one so he sent some of his most trusted people to be executed. -
Robespierre's power came to an end and he was executed. without him, no one was really being sentenced to execution. people realized he was killing innocent people for no reason -
it is a civil code that was written by napoleon. it was put into place of the French government. it has been the model for many modern governments. it gave people from all backgrounds in France freedom. -
Napoleon was a very accomplished military official. France was in need of a leader so he stepped up. he was elected but it was almost a 100% victory for him. -
Napoleon marched into Russia with 600,000 men to take over Russia. it failed miserably because it was winter and the people of Russia were adapted to the weather. also, Russia has so much land to retreat to so it made the french army really weak.