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With bad harvests in 1787 and 1788, this led the country to grow into poverty
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Move aside America, its time for the French to get super mad and have a revolution.
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Well the kings head is gone, where it go? Ask the Jacobins. How do you solve a country’s economic crisis? Chop the kings head off obviously. Maybe we should try that who knows, make some orange juice. Sorry. He went out very peacefully with a um guillotine
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So Louis XVI had a idea, hes like "cool lets have a meeting of estates general, and the first and second estates will have 300 representetives, and the third one will have 600 (crazy).
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The new constitution set up a limited monarchy. Theres still a king, but a legislative assembly would make the laws.
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The other European leaders were quivering in their boots that whats happening in France will happen in their countries. Austria and Prussia threatened to put their king back in full power again, and France was like hell no. So they took the first step and declared war on Austria
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Angry citizens demonstrated to protest food shortages and defeats in the war. They declared themselves a commune and organized a mob attack on the royal palace and legislative assembly.
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The newly elected National Convection began meeting.
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Revolts begin in western France, counter-revolutionaries executed, anti catholic laws passed
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In less than a year, the new cool French government raised a huge army, it had a million soldiers. Oh jeez. Pushed all the invaders back. Largest army Europe had ever laid their eyes on. Kicked the Austrians and Dutch back two times. CrAzy.
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Maybe that head choppy off thing was a good idea. France deafeted their foreign foes. But later on that year our guy Robespierre died, and our other guy Jacobins lost power.
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To keep one party from getting control, they made a new constitution with two legislative houses.
