1. By Abby Christensen
The French Revolution

2. Stage 1 (Preconditions)
French society was divided into three estates and the estate a person belonged to determined the persons rights, obligations and status.

3. The middle class bourgeoisie who belonged to the third estate resented the privileges and powers of the first and second Estates.

4. The middle class, working class, and some nobles wanted some form of democracy similar to England

5. Stage 2 (Crisis)
Absolute government Inefficient government

6. Financial difficulties Social cause

7. Enlightenment philosophers American Revolution

8. Stage 3 (Moderate phase)
Estates General (May 5-June 27,1789 National Assembly and Tennis Court Oath (June 17-20, 1789) Fall of the Bastille (July ) Great Fear (July-August 1789) National Assembly in Versailles (August 4, 1789) Deceleration of the rights of man and the citizen (August 26, 1789) March on Versailles (October and 5-6, 1789) National Assembly of Paris ( ) Louis XVI and family flee to Varennes (June 20-21, 1791) Legislative Assembly convenes (October 1, 1791)

9. Stage 4 Girondist versus Jacobins (1792)
France declares war on Austria (April 20, 1792)
National Convention Trial and Error execution of Louis XVI (January 21, 1793)

10. Stage 5 (Extreme phase) Reign of Terror (1793-1794)
Robespierre and the National Convention
Execution of Robespierre (July 27, 1794)

11. Stage 6 (Readjustment and Restoration)
Thermidoreans
Directory

12. The end.