French Revolution
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- Meeting of Estates General
- we represent most of the population in France so we should get more of a vote
- That's not how this works
- Tennis Court Oath
- not to separate,and reassemble whenever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established."
- Storming of the Bastille
- give us gunpowder
- surrender
- The third estate made up most of France but they were in a financial crisis. most of them where starving and 80% of there money was spent on bread and the rest on taxes. so what they did insted of one party having one vote each person in the party would have there own vote.
- The March on Versailles
- WE WANT BREAD!!!!
- Are kids are starving!!!!
- When they add this new voting rule the first two estates were not happy so they locked out the third estate out of there meeting room. so what they did is they went to this tennis court on the 20th of June and made an oath.
- The Rain of Terror
- off with there heads
- on July 14, the people of France were building a revolution and they armed themselves with guns but they were missing gunpowder so they went to the Bastille in which they killed alot of guards and they also killed Marquis of Launay
- The Rise of Napoleon
- Women and there children were starving and they wanted breed so they marched all the way to Versailles to get king louis and bring him back to Paris so he could be more responsible to his people
- King louis was killed and so the people looked up to someone else to have the power and Robespierre seemed to fit this roll perfectly but when trying to wipe out ever thing that reminded people of the king he ended up killing lots of inasint people using somthing called the guillotine which was deemed as a human way of killing people
- people relized what Robespierre was doing so they sent him to the guillotine but they didnt have anyone in power so after seeing Napoleons great sucsess in war they figured that he would be the best leader for France and they did a millatary reform
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