French Revolution
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- Taxes
- France is broke! It is time for you guys to help, pay taxes!!!!
- Our families!!!! How will I be able to provide for them?
- Oh no.......
- Starvation
- Please sir, are you selling any bread? My family is starving
- No, I'm sorry my crops are ruined. I can't afford anymore wheat seeds
- Enlightenment Philosophies
- IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE !!!!!!
- One big cause of the revolution was the fact that certain people in the French population did not have to pay taxes. They were known as the second estate, or nobility. The population of France was divided into three estates. The French economy is later realized to be in a crisis. The government decides to spend more money than they can bring it by helping the American colonists against Britain. They decide to burden the third estate, or peasants with taxes.
- Storming of Bastille
- NO PLEASE! I SURRENDER!
- Because Louis refused to accept the National assembly's decree food shortages had arose. Starvation was spreading everywhere and the weather was ruining crops. There was no more bread. And the bread that was left, they couldn’t afford because of high taxes.
- Tennis court oath
- WE WILL NOT STOP MEETING UNTIL WE GET A NEW CONSTITUTION
- The philosophy ideas of liberty and equality impacted the French Revolution majorly. The third estates started questioning their position in the landholding system and the unfairness of their taxes. The population was also introduced to individual rights and representative institutions. They started to understand the age of reason and the enlightenment ideas were giving them justification for the revolution.
- Women’s march to Versailles
- WE DEMAND BREAD !!! AND WILL NOT LEAVE WITHOUT IT
- On July 14, 1789 about 900 Parisians gathered outside of Bastille. Bastille was a prison and was also used as an armory. They eventually stormed Bastille and demolished the place. They fought for four hours until the warden surrendered. They then cut the warden’s head off.
- The tennis court oath was an oath that had been sworn among the third estate. The third estate wanted to set up a constitutional government, the king denied. When the king realized that the Third estate could have a chance to win the majority vote and make changes he took action. On June 20 when the third estate arrived at their regular meeting place they found the doors locked. As a result they moved their meeting to a nearby tennis court where they swore that they would continue meeting until they draft a new constitution.
- Thousands of women decided to take matters into their own hands and march to Versailles. They were armed with weapons such as pitchforks, pistols, and broomsticks.They forced Louis to accept the new decrees. To give as an act of goodwill the King and Queen carried wagon loads of flour.
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