French Revolution
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- 3 Causes of the Revolution / Taxes
- STOP TAXING US!
- I CAN'T PAY MY TAXXES, IM POOR!
- Starvation
- Enlightenment Philosophies
- Peasants paid a land tax to the state a 5% property tax. All paid a tax on the number of people in the family, depending on the status of the taxpayer. Taxation regime was excessive, inefficient and unfair. It was excessive because France had become one of the highest taxing states in Europe, chiefly because of its warmongering, growing bureaucracy and high spending.
- Estates General Meeting / Tennis Court Oath
- A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread starvation in the countryside. Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't.
- Storming of the Bastille
- During the French Revolution, philosophers played a significant role. With their revolutionary principles, they galvanized the French people and prepared them to resist injustice. Writings of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu greatly influenced the revolutionaries in France.
- Women's March to Versailles
- LOWER THE PRICES OR YOU'RE DEAD!
- Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General at Versailles on May 5, 1789. This assembly was composed of three estates, the clergy, nobility and commoners. who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country. On June 20, its deputies arrived at their meeting place, only to find the doors had been locked. They then moved to a nearby indoor tennis court and swore that they would continue meeting until they had a new constitution. The oath they swore is known as the Tennis Court Oath.
- Louis XVI prepared to use force against the Third Estate. On July 14, 1789, about 900 Parisians gathered in the courtyard of the BastilleThey stormed the Bastille, and after four hours of fighting, the prison warden surrendered. The rebels cut off the warden's head and demolished the Bastille brick by brick. Paris was abandoned to the rebels.
- Concerned over the high price and scarcity of bread, women from the marketplaces of Paris led the March on Versailles on October 5, 1789. This became one of the most significant events of the French Revolution, eventually forcing the royals to return to Paris.
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