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The American Reveolution
France went into further debt by helping the Americans beat the British by supplying troops. They spent 100 million dollars. -
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The French Revolution
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Tennis Court Oath
When France kicked out the third Estate of France .They meet in a tennis court to find a way to fix france. -
Fall of the Bastille
Represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution -
The Great Fear
waves of peasants roits and violence swept through France. Peasants start to hear rumors about what might be going on. -
Declaration of the rights of man
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration. -
The Women's March
A crowd of women demanding bread for their families. The king meets with some of the women and promises to distribute all the bread to versailles to the crowd. -
Execution of the king
King louis XVl was executed because how he had ran France into the ground with debt. Also was convicted of treason. -
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Reign of Terror Starts
Harsh measures against those suspested of being enemies of the Revolution. In Paris France a wave of executions followed. -
Execution of the Robespierre
He is executed since he had 17000 executed because they might be enemies of the Revolution. French Revolution's Reign of Terror is overthrown and arrested by the national convention. -
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The Directory Established
It operated following the committeemof Public safety and preceding the consulate. Known as the Directory era till it was overthrown by napoleon
