French Revolution
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- King Louis XVI
- ATTACK
- AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Democracy/Republic
- Bastille Prison and Guillotine
- IT WORKED!!
- Louis XVI approved French military support for the American colonies in their successful struggle against the British, but the expense nearly bankrupted the country. Louis convened the Estates-General in an effort to solve his budget crisis, but by doing so he unwittingly sparked the French Revolution.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- I'm in charge now!!HEHEHEHEHE
- Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
- Decoration of the rights of Man
- YEAH!!!!!
- The Bastille, Prison is a French state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses.
- Tennis Court Oath
- We want a new constitution
- YEAH!!!!
- Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 and died in 1821. He was also known as Napoleon I. He was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles. There were many proposals
- The Tennis Court Oath (in French, Serment du jeu de Paume) was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. It has become one of the most iconic scenes of the French Revolution
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