French and Haitian Revolution Storyboard
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- French Revolution: Motive
- The Third Estate (commoners) of France were tired of being stuck in their social class and tired of being overtaxed by the Clergy and Nobility.
- HUGE tax
- Method
- The Third Estate is the only one to show up to the General Estate in Versailles 1789. They call themselves the National Assembly and basically took control from the French king. They also later on executed a bunch of nobles and people who supported them.
- Where are the First and Second Estates?
- Change
- In August of 1789, the National Assembly votes to get rid of all noble privileges. Also, the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen gives everyone natural rights and other freedoms like speech, religion, and press.
- Decl. of rights of man and citizen
- Haitian Revolution:Motive
- Around 1790 there was 500k slaves working on sugar plantations in Haiti. They were horrifically mistreated and wanted to abolish slavery, and they also wanted equal rights to the ones given to their French enslavers.
- Method
- General Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, becomes the leader of the revolution and fights off the French, Spanish, and English to then abolish slavery. Napoleon comes back and captures GTO, but the French begin to back down, and the Haitians fight again and win independence from France in 1804.
- Change
- Haiti ratifies it's constitution in 1804 based off the French and American ones. The constitution abolishes slavery, makes all people equal, grants freedom of religion, and ends French overseas rule.
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