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But the 3 estates (classes) had unequal power and property.The Nobles and clergy aren't interested in tax equity.
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France is deep in debt. King Louis wife disliked due to extravagant spending.
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The common people (majority of the population) wanted more representation in government. The clergy and nobles wanted to maintain their over-representation.
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Rumors that French citizens would be attacked by foreign soldiers. King Louis attempted to enforce a compromise between the social classes.Revolting against years of exploitation, peasants looted and burned the homes of tax collectors, landlords
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Most important ideas were freedom of speech,popular sovereignty and representative gov't.The French were influenced by,"...a statement of democratic principles grounded in the philosophical and political ideas of Enlightenment thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau."(history.com)
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At the beginning of the Revolution Louis XVI attempts to escape with his unpopular wife Marie Antoinette. Many people wanted him to amend the constitution.
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The monarchy is abolished (eliminated). They were charged with treason because evidence was found that Louis XVI was against the French Revolution.
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"Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine." (history.com)
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For 10 months radical Jacobin's gathered and executed (via guillotine) individuals that were against the French Revolution. Maximilien de Robespierre ordered the majority of the executions.At 17,000 people were executed and many died in prison without a trial.
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"His death marked the beginning of the Thermidorian Reaction, a moderate phase in which the French people revolted against the Reign of Terror’s excesses." (history.com)
