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A war for independence against Great Britain.
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Gathering where representatives form various sectors of society come together to discuss and make decisions about important political, economic, or social matters.
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Established to represent the people of a country and created laws.
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members of the Third Estate, locked out of a meeting of the Estate-General, gathered in a tennis court. Swore not to separate until they had created a new constitution for France.
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Louis XVI called the nobility, clergy, and third estate bouguassie, as a response to financial crisis facing France.
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Parisians storm the Bastille in a symbolic act of defiance against the oppressive monarchy.
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Rumors spread across rural France that nobles were hiring outlaws to attack peasants and destroy their crops.
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National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Thousands of women, angry over high price and scarcity of bread, March from Paris to the Palace of Versailles. Demanded action from King Louis XVI to address the food crisis and economic inequality.
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Guillotine was adopted as a way to kill
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Has been killed by the Gulliotine
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To protect revolution from it enemies. Was responsible for overseeing the governments actions and played major role in the Reign of Terror.
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Used extreme measures to protect the revolution. Thousand of people were executed by the Guillotine.
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Protect herself and her family during the French Revolution.
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Queen Marie Antoinette is removed from power due to her betrayal, demonstrating the rightful consequence for an unjust ruler.
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A historical rivalry between two nations, that cause the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War
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A book by Crane Brinton outlining the "uniformities" of four major political revolutions: the English Revolution of the 1640s, the American, the French, and the Russian revolutions.