French Revolution
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- Meeting of Estates General
- We're born into being more important.
- Why are we so small compared to you guys?!
- Tennis Court Oath
- We will never separate and meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have esta...
- Storming of the Bastille
- ATTACK!!!!!
- Free the prisoners!!
- In 1789, France faced a severe financial crisis and reforms weren't going to be enough to fix it. Also, the third estate was the most diverse class and the majority of the population but, had the same amount of power as the first and second estate as a whole and if the estates voted by order, the first and second estate would outvote the third estate.
- March on Versailles
- uhh, you guys still want me back??
- In June of 1789, the delegates of the 3rd estate declared themselves to be the national assembly and claiming to represent the people of France and pledged "never to separate and to meet wherever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution."
- Reign of Terror
- I think there could be another way
- On July 14, 1789, the city of Paris seized the spotlight from the national assembly and more than 800 Parisians assembled outside the Bastille, which was a grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners. This is what started the French Revolution.
- Rise of Napolean
- Basically, I'm the Emperor now.
- In 1789, thousands of women marched to Paris from Versailles shouting "Bread!" because with the financial crisis, bread prices were soaring because they didn't have enough. The women got the king to return to Versailles and wanted a promise for him to stay and fix the financial problems.
- Bread!!
- YOU MUST RETURN!!
- The Reign of Terror was a 10 month long time period where anybody suspected of being against the revolution and trialed then, were most likely beheaded in which a guillotine was used, due to Robespierre's demands. Revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials and spectators greeted death sentences with cries of "Hail the Republic!"
- Off with your head then!
- Napoleon backed off from some of the revolution's social reforms while still controlling prices, encouraging new industry, and building roads and canals to restore economic prosperity after he had acquired enough power to assume the title 'emperor.' There was also a lot of military successes during the rise of Napoleon like him strengthening the central government by replacing liberty, equality, and fraternity with order, security, and efficency.
- Uhh, you can do that?
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