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There were three different Estates. It was brought to an end when members of the Third Estate left and formed the National Assembly.
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When the Third Estate was locked out of the meeting room they met at an indoor tennis court and pledged not to leave until a new constitution was written up.
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People stormed the Bastille and killed some guards and paraded around the streets with their heads on pikes.
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People broke into nobles' houses and burned all the legal papers that bound them to pay feudal dues or even burned down the homes.
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This decloration said, "men are born and remain free in rights." It also guaranteed freedom of speech, equal justice, and freedom of religion
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Women had rioted over the price of bread and marched to Versailles and demanded that Louis and Marie return to Paris. Louis and Marie never saw Versailles again.
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Louis and Marie tried to escape France, but were caught and turned into the authorities.
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The king approved a new constitution where France’s government became a limited constitutional Monarchy, where King’s held very little power. It also created the Legislative Assembly which had the power to create laws.
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This threatened people that if the royal family was harmed, the other French civilians would be harmed.
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The Reign of Terror was when Robespierre ruled France for a year.
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This quickly abolished the monarchy and declared France a Republic where every male citizen could vote, no women though.
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A directory was where a two house legislature and an Executive body of five men who ran the country.
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He was a general that led the armies. He also defended the National Convention.
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Napoleon signed this with Pope Pius VII. It was an agreement where each agreed to deal with their own issues and not get involved with the other
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Napoleon sells Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson for 15 million dollars.
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The people favored the vote and let Napoleon become Emperor. To show he was more powerful than the Church, he crowned himself rather than letting the Pope do it.
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This was a code Napoleon made which favored order over individual freedoms.
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This was the battle Napoleon lost to the British.
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This was what Napoleon set up. It was a blockade to prevent Britain from trading with Europe.
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This was when Britain, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Austria declared war on France.
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The Invasion of Russia was Napoleons biggest mistake. He started with an army of 420,000 and only 10,000 made it back.
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The Russian and Prussian soldiers exiled Napoleon to Elba which was off the coast of Italy.
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Britain and Prussia defeated the French in this Battle.
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After Napoleon lost the battle, he was sent to St. Helena where he died six years later.
