The French Revolution - 1780
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- French Revolution: Introduction
- Factors that led to the Revolution
- Meeting of the Estates General
- The French Revolution was a period of time from 1789-1799 in France when the people overthrew the monarchy and took over the government.
- The Tennis Court Oath
- Factors that led to the French Revolution include social inequality, economic hardship, the rise in the cost of bread, National assembly, and the Tennis Court Oath.
- The Storming of the Bastille
- The meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 was a general assembly representing the French Estates.
- The Great Fear
- In 1789, the members of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, voting "not to separate and reassemble wherever necessary until the constitution of the kingdom is established.
- In 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. They eventually took control over the whole building.
- The Great Fear in 1789, was a period of panic and riot by peasents and others.
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