What have we learned so far? French Revolution What have we learned so far?

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My Amazingly Gorgeous Flow chart Debt of France (from wars like the American Revolution and bad harvests) leads to Louis XVI calling the Estates-General so he can figure out how to levy taxes The Estates-General is abandoned by the peasants, who create the National Assembly for equal representation National Assembly finds their meeting place barred up and moves to a nearby tennis court, vowing to meet wherever they must in order to create a new, fair constitution representing Enlightenment ideas

Tennis Court Oath

Why are there people up high in the windows?!

Moving on… The National Assembly (which now includes members of all three estates) feels pressure from the peasant class; they meet until 2 AM and agree to end feudalism

Based on the American Revolution… National Assembly issues Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) All men have the same basic rights Rights to: liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

Soon After… Poor grain harvests lead to inflated (higher) food prices 6,000 women marched on Versailles

Why would the women want King Louis XVI to move back to Paris?

Woohoo, a new Constitution!! “Liberty to every man to come and go without being subject to arrest or detention, except according to the forms determined by the Constitution; Liberty to every man to speak, write, print, and publish his opinions without having his writings subject to any censorship or inspection before their publication, and to worship as he pleases; Liberty to citizens to assemble peaceably and without arms in accordance with police regulations….”

Other European monarchs fear the French Revolution is eroding their own legitimacy

Forget about rights, kill ‘em all!!! Radical members of the revolution noticed these new threats to their cause from monarchs abroad. Small skirmishes against counter-revolutionaries also threatened the revolution. Forget about rights, kill ‘em all!!!

The beginning of the Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre along with his supporters, known as Jacobins, create the Committee of Public Safety to find and behead any non-supporters of the revolution

Robespierre is Guillotined himself!

END OF THE REIGN OF TERROR!