English Civil War
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- TAXES
- how unfair
- why the taxes increased
- Why did Louis XVI spend so much that he was forced to raise taxes
- STARVATION
- because the expenses of the king of Paris that increased taxes and the nobles did not want to pay more taxes
- why bread is so expensive and why so many taxes
- ho that's why
- why the social conditions and ideas of the Enlightenment are forming an underlying background to the French Revolution
- Enlightenment philosophies
- by the near collapse of France's budgets
- So that's why all those causes are happening in France
- The French treasury was nearly empty when Louis XVI ascended the throne therefore in order to meet expenses like maintaining an army, court, running of government machinery etc. the he was forced to increase taxes.
- 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
- We need to take control immediately
- Social conditions and Enlightenment ideas, then, formed an underlying background to the French Revolution. The immediate cause of the revolution was the near collapse of the French budget.
- Women’s March to Versailles
- here we are gathered for the meeting with the deputies
- On June 17, 1789, the Third Estate boldly declared that it was the National Assembly and would draft a constitution. Three days later, 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.
- why is the door closed
- yes
- So we better go to a tennis court for a new constitution
- The Storming of the Bastille was an event that occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, when revolutionaries stormed and seized control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille.
- what do we do
- the revolutionaries took control of the armory and this fortress and the political prison known as the Bastille.
- because women are leading the march on Versailles because of food shortages and high prices.
- The March on Versailles. 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
- why
- the nobles are returning to Paris
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