The French Revolution
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- No he said the people
- Taxes
- Did he say for the Army
- Rousseau must hear about this.
- You all must pay taxes for our Army- I mean for more reliable resources for the people
- Starvation
- Sorry no bread
- Wheres our bread!!
- Did you hear about Locke and Rousseau?
- Enlightenment Philosophies
- Yes! Wer're saved!!
- Hello yes this is John Locke
- If i cant see it, its not there.
- Colonies in the 1765 had to pay taxes on certain printed documents like newspaper and legal documents, which was called the Stamp Act passed by the Parliament. This act was to use the taxes to cover war costs and maintaining a defending army for the colonies.
- Estates General meeting/Tennis Court Oath
- Who wishes to play a few arounds after this meeting?
- Peasents during the Revolution had little to no money for food, the only food they could aford at the time was having a skyrocketing in prices, which was bread.
- Storming of the Bastille
- FOR THE PEOPLE
- Enlightenment philosopher, John Locke believed that everyone is born with Natural Rights. aAnother philosopher, Rousseau believed that the government should protect the people by signing a Social Contract.
- Womens March to Versailles
- Louis XVL called a meeting of all the three Estates Gerneral at Versailles to cast voting about seting up a constitutional government, which made the clergy and nobles to pay taxes as well; a few days later the third estate declared that the National Assembly would draft a constitution, where this meeting would have been held was locked so they meet at the door next to it, which was a tennis court, and swore to an oath known as the Tennis Court Oath.
- Soooooo, we are at the tennis courts today
- During the storm of the Bastille, 900 peasents spent 4 hours fighting with the guards, killing them, then destroying the Bastille brick, by brick
- Not my kids
- On October 5, women armed with weapons marched to the Versailles to tell the king their children are starving due to no bread. With these remarks they also demanded the King to return to Paris, days later he and the queen did. When they both returned, they had wagons carry loads of flour.
- weres our bread
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