1. Unit 2: Revolutions
3.4.16

2. review 1. Who do these three represent?
A: The 1st Estate (clergy), the 2nd Estate (nobility), and the 3rd Estate (everyone else)
2. What was this system called?
A: The Feudal System

3. review 3. What was the problem with this system?
A: The 3rd Estate had 97% of the population but paid the most in taxes, were the poorest, and had little power in government.
4. What other factors led to the French Revolution?

4. The French revolution July 14 : Bastille Day What was the Bastille?
Commemorates the fall of the Bastille in 1789
What was the Bastille?
A fortress in Paris built to defend the eastern approach to the city
Louis XVI used it as a prison
The French people stormed it to get access to weapons & gunpowder

5. The French revolution
Part II & Questions focus on the Bastille & the financial crisis
Answer in complete sentences please (except where is says list)

6. homework Declaration of the Rights of Man read & annotate the text
Due Monday, 3/7
Be ready to discuss the text!