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| when did the French revolution happen? |
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| What century was the 1700s? |
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| What century do we live in now? |
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| What were the reasons for the French revolution? |
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| National debt, inequality of the classes. |
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| Who paid most of the taxes? |
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| The third estate: bourgeois, city workers, and peasants |
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| what were the groups in the third estate? |
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| Bourgeois (merchants, etc.), urban lower class, and peasants. |
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| Who were in the first estate? |
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| Clergymen (officials in the catholic church) |
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| Which class paid most of the taxes? |
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| Which estate made up 98% of the population:? |
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| which estate were the bourgeois in? |
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| yes and no...they were wealthy, but they had to pay 1/2 of their income in taxes |
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| what kinds of pepole were in the 2nd estate? |
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| nobility. wealthy land owners...they had a lot of power, but they were only 2% of the population |
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| Which group wanted change in the goverment? |
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| WHy did Louis XVI call a meeting of the ESTATES GENERAL |
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| he needed more money for the govermnent...he wanted to raise taxes |
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| why didn't the 3rd estate vote to change the system? |
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| Because even though they represented 98% of the people, they only got one vote and they always got voted down by the other two estates? |
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| what was the National ASsembly? |
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| The 3rd Estate renamed themselves this...and they refused to cooperate with the other groups until things changed. |
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| What was the TEnnis Court Oath? |
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| The National Assembly (3rd estate representatives) agreed not to disband until they had written a Constitution for France. |
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| Did the king accept the new constitution? |
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| Yes, in 1791. But reluctantly. |
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| The new constitution took away a lot of power from who? |
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| What did bread have to do with the revolution? |
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| Many people were starving because bread prices were so high...they were desperate. |
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| Why were bread prices so high? |
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| The crops had failed, and the king didn't care about the people. |
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| who were the king and queen of France at the time of the revolution? |
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| Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette |
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| Why did the people "storm the Bastille? |
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| They wanted gunpowder, but the officers refused to give it, the officers fired on the crowd, and a riot happened. |
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| What was the "Great Fear?" |
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| The people panicked when they heard that troops were coming to kill them. In the countryside, peasants panicked and turned violent against the nobles in their villages. |
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| WHere did King Louis live? |
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| Versailles, a lavish palace 11 miles outside of Paris. |
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| Where and what is Versailles? |
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| A palace that the French king lived in...11 miles outside of Paris |
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| What did the Storming of the Bastille signify? |
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| The beginning of the French Revolution |
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| Where did 7,000 women go in 1789> |
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| They marched to Versailles, Louis' home outside Paris |
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| What happened in the "march to versailles?" |
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| Women demanded jobs and bread, they broke in and killed some guards, they demanded Louis go back to Paris. |
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| Who tried to flee the country? |
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| Louis and Marie Antoinette (the king and queen) and their family. |
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| Did the king and queen flee the country? |
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| They tried, but were caught and brought back. |
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| Who participated in teh "March on Versailles?" |
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| THe king signed the new constitution, but he still had a lot of power to _____ any laws. |
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| The king and his family were caught trying to _______ |
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| what was the National Convention? |
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| the new government (of the people)_ after the revolution. |
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