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French Revolution Warm Ups #21
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BACKGROUND STRONGSTRONG THE SUN KING LOUIS XIV (14) Fine Tunes the ABSOLUTE MONARCHY Built a palace at VERSAILLES
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Louis XVI (16) & Marie Antoinette IN DEBT BIG TIME Wars Bad Money Management Supported Am. Revolution Kin and Queens Spending WEAKWEAK
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FRENCH SOCIAL CLASSES = ESTATES
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1 ST CLERGY1% ESTATE WHOS IN IT? % OF POPULATION
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2 ND NOBILITY 2%
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ESTATE WHOS IN IT? % OF POPULATION 3 RD EVERYONE ELSE 97% BOURGEOISIE (WHITE COLLAR) PETIT BOURGEOISIE (BLUE COLLAR) PEASANTS (FARMERS)
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King needed $, called for a meeting of the Estates General (wanted to tax 1 st and 2 nd Estates)
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ESTATES GENERAL 1 ST 1% 1 VOTE 2 ND 2% 1 VOTE 3 RD 97% 1 VOTE June 17, 1789 – 3 rd Estate becomes National Assembly
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Louis XVI is indecisive –did not recognize Assembly Riots in Paris over price of bread July 14, 1789 – Storming of the Bastille
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Vocab 1.Old Regime 2.Three Estates 3.Bastille 4.Reign of Terror 5.revolution 6.French Revolution 7.Waterloo 8.Congress of Vienna 9.guillotine 10.Napoleonic Code 11.nationalism 12.coup detat 13.Hundred Days 14.exile 15.Louis XVI 16.Robespierre 17.Napoleon 18.Estates 19.National assembly 20.Scorched earth policy
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