the french revolution
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- Causes of the revolution
- why do we have to share our privileges with you?
- We have every right!!
- States general meeting
- well continue this in the tennis court...
- Storming of the Bastille
- Cut his head off now!!!
- The 3 causes of the revolution were The bourgeoisie,The Increased criticism, and Social conditions.They were all increasingly upset, each one with different reasons.
- Women's march to Versailles
- We have the same rights as the man!!!
- The third Estate boldly declared that it was the National Assembly and would draft a constitution.They moved to a nearby indoor tennis court and swore that they would continue the meeting until they had a new constitution.
- Taxes and starvation
- We have to do something about this!
- They stormed the Bastille, and after 4 hours of fighting, the prison warden surrendered. The rebels cut off the warden's head and demolished the Bastille brick by brick.
- Enlightenment philosophies
- I don't think it's a good idea...
- thousands of Parisian women armed with broomsticks, pitchforks, pistols, and other weapons marched to Versailles.Some of the women then met with the king.
- The immediate cause of the revolution was near collapse of the french budget.Bad harvests and a slowdown in manufacturing led to food shortages,rising prices for food, and unemployment.
- I'm hungry...
- The philosophers did not advocate revolution.Their ideas however,were widely spread among the literate middle class and nobles elites of it.
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