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Causes of French Revolution
The cause of the French Revolution Revolution was because France was bankrupt due to military spending. 2nd cause was because of the queen's useless spending. 3rd cause is because bad harvests such as severe droughts, and food shortages. (Class Notes) -
National Assembly Created
Since the 1st and 2nd Estate out voted the 3rd Estate so the representatives stormed out of the meeting and formed their own parliament. During the creation of the National Assembly, members take the Tennis Court Oath pledging to create a new constitution. The National Assemble were known to represent the French People. (Class Notes) -
Tennis Court Oath
The tennis court oath was an agreement that every member of the 3rd estate meet in the tennis court until the DRM was finished. The oath was made not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established The oath was both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority.derived from the people and their representatives. (Wikipedia) -
Attack on the Bastille
Parisians knew that the Third Estate had declared itself a National Assembly, and that the King was opposed to this. They feared that the King was gathering troops to suppress the popular uprisings, and needed arms to defend themselves. They had muskets, but they needed gun powder, and that was at the Bastille.(Wikianswers) -
D.R.M.
The concept of the Declaration was inspired from the Englightment. Ideas such as individualism, the social contract, and the separation of power. There was also a "tennis court oath" that the 3rd estate would keep meeting until the DRM was completed.(Wikipedia) -
Bread March
The Bread March was one of the most significant events of the French Revolution because the women of Paris were rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. Their demonstrations quickly became intertwined with the activities of revolutionaries who were seeking liberal political reforms. The market women and their allies grew into a mod of thousands, encouraged by revolutionary agitators, they ransacked the city armory for weapons and marched to the Palace of Versailles.(Wikipedia) -
Royal Escape
The Royal family tried to escape due to many reasons. First they were under serious risk of physical vioence. Second, the King hoped to escape from Paris, the centre of the Revolution, to make contact with the people in the provinces who were more royalist and more suspicious of the motives of the Parisian revolutionaries.(Wikianswers) -
Death of King Louis XVI
King Louis XVI had been loved by his people, but his hostility towards the National Assembly had aroused discontent with his rule. The last nail in his coffin was an attempt to escape from France in June 1791 to garner support for the re-establishment of the old regime, an event named "Flight to Varennes" where he was caught before he and his family could reach the fortress of Montmédy, a royalist stronghold, across the border of Austrian Netherlands. Public opinion began to sway.(Wikipedia) -
Reign of Terror (beginning)
The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occured after the French Revolution. Incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution." The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.(Wikipedia) -
Napoleon Becomes Dictator of France
Napoleon seized power after the collapse of the French Revolution. He believed in a very strong centralised government, organised the educational system and beurocracy of France so that they would bolster his own power, reintroduced censorship and imprisonment without trial, and ruled mainly by Imperial Decree. Many people did follow him willingly.(YahooAnswers)
