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Estates General Meeting
It signaled the outbreak of the French Revolution. It was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm. -
Tennis Court Oath
One member of the Oath would not execute the decisions not made by the king, therefore did not vote and these member were locked out of the meeting. -
Storming the Bastille
fall of the flashpoint of the French Revolution -
The Great Fear
It was the general panic that started the French Revolution.
A grain shortage also took place at the time. There were rumors of an aristocrat's “famine plot” to starve out the population. People got scared and started attacks and defending their lands -
August Decrees
It was declared with the idea of calming the populace and encouraging them towards civility. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This influenced and inspired rights-based liberal democracy throughout the world. -
Women's March on Versailles
Took place to have a riot because of high price of bread. -
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy settled chaos from the Church. -
Constitution of 1791
It etained the monarchy; system of indirect voting; people now only had to pay minimal taxes. -
September Massacres
The September Massacres were a wave of killings in Paris and other cities in late summer 1792. -
Establishment of the French Republic
National convention which voted to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic.
