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The French Revolution
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Convening the Estates General
The estates general is called to met at Versailles for the first time in 175 years. -
Tenis Court oath
The people representing the third estate at the Estates General meeting were locked out. So they decided to meet in a room that contained a tennis looking court. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the bastille was where citizens of the third estate were looking for gun powder. -
Great Fear
The great fear was where the people of the third estate broke in and destroyed members of the first and second estates property. -
The Decleration of the Right of man
Was a document defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
Womens March to Versailles
The women where upset that the king and queen had all this grain i they were starving. So they marched to Versailles. -
Louis and Marie’s flight to Varennes
Louis and Marie try to flee to get a countries army to fight to help him regain power. -
Constitution of 1971
established the Kingdom of the French, a constitutional monarchy, and the Legislative Assembly. -
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto threatened that if the French royal family were harmed, then French civilians would be harmed. -
National Convention
They comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly. -
Reign of Terror
a period of mass murderings occuring after the start of the French Revolution. -
Directory
a body of five Directors that held executive power in France after the Convention. -
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over the directory
Napoleon Bonaparte takes over the directory and later becomes emperor of France. -
Concordat of 1801
It was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, Solidifying that the Ctholic Church was the main church of France. -
Louisiana Purchase
America buys land in Americ up to and over the Mississippi River from France -
Napoleonic Code
The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified -
Napoleon Becomes Emperor
Napoleon becomes emperor of France -
Battle of Trafalgar
It was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy. -
Continental System
It was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom. -
Peninsular War
It was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula. -
Invasion of Russia
It reduced the French and allied invasion forces. -
Exile to Elba
Napoline was banished to the island of Elba by the treaty signed. -
Battle of Waterloo
It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last. -
Exile to St. Helena
After his defeat at Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.