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when did the french revolution start? |
1700's |
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what philosophers inspired the citizens of France? |
locke,voltaire,rousseau |
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what are the names of the 3 large estates? |
clergy,nobles,bourgeoisie and peasants |
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what where the privileges of the noble and clergy estates? |
access to high office, no taxes, together owned 30% of land |
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what did the privileged estates dislike? |
the ideas of enlightenment, would lead to power loss |
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what is the majority of the french civilians? |
3rd estate (bourgeoisie and peasants) |
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who did peasants pay taxes to? |
king, nobles, church and towards their own food |
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what caused a change? |
lower class, new ideas of gov., economic problems, weak leadership |
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what caused rebellion in the lower estate? |
ideas of the enlightenment-they wanted equality, liberty,democracy |
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what were frances economic troubles? |
higher taxes, starvation, gov. in debt |
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what was the king and queen putting their money into |
their life style, gambling, helping american vs Britain war |
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what was the kings solution to his debt? |
impose taxes on nobility |
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what is an estates general? |
assemble of representatives from all 3 estates |
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when and were was this meeting held? |
may 5 1789 at versailles |
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what was the issue with voting by estate? |
the privileged estates always out voted the 3rd estate |
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what happened when the 3rd estate wanted to vote by individuals and not by estate |
the king ignored them |
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what action did the 3rd estate take against the king |
called themselves the national assembly and started passing laws and reforms |
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when was the national assembly formed and taking action |
june 17 1789 |
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what did the national assembly accomplish |
turned monarchy into rep gov, first act of the revolution, tennis court oath |
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what is the tennis court oath |
wouldn't leave the tennis court until a new constitution was made |
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who joined the 3rd estate once they started taking over |
some clergy and nobles |
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what did the national assembly do once they heard rumors of the king separating their group |
took over Bastille prison and killed the gaurds, then put their heads on spikes |
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what did the peasants do after hearing rumors of nobles terrorizing them |
they burned down manors and also forced the king and queen to leave |
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what was signaled of the queen and king leaving |
a change of power |
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what are the names of frances queen and king |
louis XVI and Marie Antoinette |
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where was Marie Antoinette from |
austria |
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why was Lous XVI a bad leader |
he couldnt make decisions well, he couldnt improve peoples lives and took bad advice |
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what are the steps of a revolution |
unhappy with status quo, catalyst comes along, take action, evaluation of action |
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what does revolution mean? |
change |
