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France supports the Patriots in the American Revolution leading to more national debt.
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Agricultural recession forces landowners to increase their sources of revenue: lower class works harder and is taxed more.
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Charles Alexandre asks upper class to share in national debt. They refuse
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Food becomes expensive due to lack of crops
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"we won't separate until constitutional regime was established." King agrees to their demands, but surrounds his palace with guards
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The storming and fall of the prison, Bastille.
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Peasants start robbing and burning some of the rich people mansions. They burned records of owned money.
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The civil constitution of clergy was passed in 1791- it was adopted in 1791.
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Louis XVI and his family were arrested while trying to flee France.
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Louis XVI was sentenced to the guillotine.
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A National Draft was issued calling for all able-bodied men to enlist in the army
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Court sentenced 40,000 people to death. The Jacobins have to deal with invasion and revolts in the provinces. They respond with repression. Robespierre sends armies to subdue cities.
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Anarchy and inflation almost overwhelmed the country.
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A new constitution was adopted and it took affect after a rising in vendemiare was surpressed by napoleon bonaparte
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The fall of the directory heralds the end of the French Revolution