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estate system
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a major source for unrest due to inequalities between estaes in france
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First estate consisted of...
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upper an lower clergy
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Second estate consisted of...
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nobility
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third estate consisted of...
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bourgeoisie, artisans, peasants
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The first and second estate consisted of __% of the population
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3
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The third estate consisted of __% of the population
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97
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Louis XIV's wife was...
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Marie Antoinette
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Was aware of frances financial problems
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Louis XIV
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Louis XIV became king at age...
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19
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Louis XIV started a revolution by...
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trying to get the nobility to pay taxes
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Who bravely faced death at the Guillotine?
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Louis XIV
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Louis XIV forgave his _____ and feared what the ______ might do to ____.
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enimies; revolution; France
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This was formed after the Third estate was locked out of the estaes general by Louis XIV.
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national assembly
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What did the Tennis court oath promise?
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it promised that the third estate wouldnt disband before the constitution was created
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Bastille was...
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A prisson as well as an aresenal in Paris
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Bastille symbolized...
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the power and unfairness of France's monarchy
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Why did mobs storm Bastille?
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To get the weapons they felt they needed to defend the national assembly against the royal troops
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When ______ fell, it marked the begining of the revolution
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Bastille
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The great fear was started by...
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rumors that the nobility had paid robbers to kill peasants
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during this peasants robbed granaries, and destroyed feudal records and broke into manors
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Great Fear
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The great fear convinced nobles to...
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give into demands of the third estate; which allowed national assembly to pass many reforms
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When the women marched to Versailles they forced...
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louis and family to move from Versailles back to Paris to demonstrate his support of the national assembly
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this demonstrated that women could bring about change
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women marched to versailles
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This is still in the french constitution today
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Declaration of rights of man and of the citizen
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The declaration of rights... incorperated ideas of the____
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Enlightenment
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the declaration guarenteed
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freedoms, such as speech press and religion
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the declaration didn't...
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protect the rights of women
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What are the three groups of the National Convention
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Jocobins, girondists, plain
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Jacobins were radicals that...
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supported extreme radicals and sans-culottes
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Girondists were...
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moderates who felt the revolution had suceeded and the bougeoisie needed to be protected
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the plain was....
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the undecided majority
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the plain eventually supported...
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the jacobins
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was controlled by the bourgouisie
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the national convention
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the natonal convention ended what
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monarchy
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who executed Louis XIV
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national convention
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allowed univeral manhood sufferage
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national convention
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who demanded respect from the upper classes and why?
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the third estate bc they saw themselves as the heroes of the revolution
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