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Hunger and Inequality - 18th Century France
France was suffering major inequality because of the three estates. The more “important” people got all the perks, they didn’t have to pay taxes and they had sufficient food to eat just because they were born into aristocracy. While people in the third estate lacked money, lacked money to buy food if food was available and they would never have a chance to work hard for a better life while people in the 2nd estate didn’t necessarily have to work hard or do much. -
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Lack of Social Mobility - 18th Century France
The First and Second estate consisted of members of the catholic church and the nobility. People like bishops,archbishops,priests and other aristocrats. They were exempt from taxes and took all of the third estates money. They had the most privileges. The third estate is compromised of peaseants,working people and the bourgeoise. These people had very few rights and privileges. -
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Feudalism
Feudalism is where there is a social hierarchy. For example some people are higher in this hierarchy than others. There are serfs and peaseants who have hardly any prvileges nor benefits (The Third Estate) then there are the aristcrats, the "rich" people in the second estate who don't have to pay taxes and are able to practically rob the peaseants. The first estate contians memebers o the catholic church who have the same prvileges as the second estate causing unfair rights for the people of Fra -
American Revolution Starts
The American Revolution officially began when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, although fighting had begun in 1775. The French saw the possibility of success and formally joined the Americans by declaring war against Britain. By the time the war ended in 1783, France had borrowed 1500 million livres to finance its involvement in it. Interest payments on this money totalled 50% of the French government's total revenue. -
US Declaration of Indpendence is Signed.
The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, and are created with certain rights that no one can take away Examples of rights would be right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness In France which has a feudal system of government these ideas are not supported as the French government believed that certain men were better than others by the fact that they were part of the catholic church or they had a lot of money, royal bloodline etc. -
American Revolution Ends
The result of the American Revolution is that theres American Indpendence. Peace of Paris which is the set of treaties which ended the American Revolutionary War. -
American Constitution is Ratified
The US constitution is compromised of revloutionary ideas about freedom of life. It was established in Philadephia to form a ne wtype of government and its rules. -
Louis Calls a meeting of the Estates General in Versailles to approve a new taxation plan.
The Estates General was greeted by Louis XVI in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on May 2, 1789. On May 5 the meeting convened with an opening speech from the king. -
National Assembly
There was disagreement amongst the three estates over voting methods in the Estates General. The third estate wished to have a "vote by head" method, whereas the First Estate and Second Estate wanted "vote by bloc" (1 vote per estate). -
Tennis Court Oath
The Third Estate was locked out of its meeting room as preparations were being made for a royal session of all three estates. Confused and angry, the delegates met instead at an indoor tennis court on the palace grounds and signed an oath not to disband until they had drawn up a new, fair constitution for France. -
The Great Fear
Political crisis and rural unrest was present in France. Peasants went hungry, grain prices rapidly increased, and people went broke trying to buy bread. Rumors also sparked the "Great Fear" when rumors led to panic within villages that government troops were taking peasant crops. During hard times, peasants attacked the nobles when nobles tried to reimpose medieval dues by ransacking the castles of the nobles and destroying documents. Peasants fought against the unjust regime. -
The Storming of the Bastille
About 600 angry Parisians successfully attacked the Bastille and took control of this symbol of tyranny. This event inspired other French people to take up arms against the king and the nobility. Storming of Bastille became a nationalist symbol, because they helped share a sense of belonging to a nation. It became a central part of their national myth because it said, "We are a nation. We can govern ourselves." It showed how the actions of ordinary citizens can lead to great change. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is approved by the National Assembly of France
This revolutionary documents states that granted freedom of the press and religion and granted equality of taxation and The view of people described in this document is different than that expressed by Feudalism in the following ways. -
Working women from Paris march on Versailles and break into the kings palace.
Women’s March on Versaille - Women start marching and rioting in Paris near marketplaces due to the high price and scarcity of bread. They eventually got enough support and performed a March in to the Palace of Versaille causing the third estate to gain a little more power and control. -
Louis XVI attempts to flee France with his family but they are captured near the Austrian border.
Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee and they were disguised as peasants.They decided to hide in a small town in Austria due to Marie Antoinette's Austrian heritage in the hopes of forming an Austrian-French connection and to start a counter-revolution. But they got recognized immediately in Varennes ( the town they were staying at) and were arrested. -
Napoleon in Egypt
Napoleon’s forces drove through Italy and reached as far as Egypt before facing a deflating defeat. In the face of this rout, and having received word of political upheavals in France, Napoleon returned to Paris.
