french revolution
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- French Revolution: Introduction
- guards!
- Factors that led to the Revolution
- this is unfair.
- Meeting of the Estates General
- The French revolution started in 1789 and ended 1799. This was a time when the commoners of France rose up against the monarchy.
- The Tennis Court Oath
- The commoners felt as they didn't have much freedom. They had high taxes while the 1st and 2nd estate did not. King Louis XVI was a weak leader and did not cut off expenses.
- The Storming of the Bastille
- This was a meeting of the three estates including clergy, nobles, and commoners. This meeting was to find solutions to their financial problems. It ended with the commoners forming into the national assembly.
- The Great Fear
- The commoners broke down a door to an indoor tennis court, pledging to stay until they had drawn up a constitution 
- we demand a constitution!
- King Louis was going to use military to dismiss the national assembly which made the 3rd estate very upset. They decided to storm the bastille which was a Paris prison and had fire arm inside. 
- The great fear was a wave of senseless panic through out France where peasants became outlaws themselves. They broke into nobles homes and they tore up documents that forced them to pay fees.
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