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The king was in trouble. The nobility was not happy with his attempt to tax their estate. Nobility wanted to pass the cost once again on the Third Estate
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King Louis XVI calls body into session to approve a new tax on the 3rd Estate. Had not met in 175 years.
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3rd estate proclaimed themselves as a legislative, called the National Assembly, and stated they had the right to make laws for france. Locked out of meeting placed by king.
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3rd Estate met in an indoor tennis court and vowed would not leave until they had a constitution. King allowed each representative to have a vote.
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A mob of Parisians went to an ancient prison called, Bastille in search of weapons.
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After the fall of the Bastille, people were scared of how the king would punish them.
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The dues that peasants owed to landowners were eliminated also the first estate's legal privileges.
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The basic principles of the French Revolution, liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
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7,000 women marched through the rain from Paris to Versailles, demanded for bread, and broke into Louis's palace.
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King Louis agreed to return to Paris and live in Tuileries palace with his family, to make peace with the mob that attacked Versailles.
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The Legislative Assembly was adopted, it kept the monarchy but the king had restricted powers.
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Citizen's gained broad voting rights, tax paying men that were 25 and older had the right to vote.
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Any harming of the french monarchs would provoke war.
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a mob marched to the Tuileries palace and slaughtered the guards and threw King Louis XVI and his wife and his children in jail.
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Revolutionary Gov't votes to abolish the monarchy and establish the first Republic. Royal family imprisoned
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France turns the tide of the war and takes the offensive against the invaders.
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To prevent a return of monarchy and defend the revolution from it's enemies
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to control the countries military defense against the foreign forces on france's borders.
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where anyone that seemed "suspicious" was arrested
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Robespierre was declared an outlaw and was put to death without trial.
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restricted voting rights given in the previous constitution, now only men that owned property could vote.
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3 Consuls were made to control the government of France, Napoleon was voted to be in charge of the first consul, and he basically became a dictator.
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Where Napoleon wanted to conquer Europe and he asked if the people wanted France to be a empire, and the people voted yes, and he became emperor.
