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-three estates (clergy, nobility, commoners) came to fix taxes after the war -marks the start of the French Revolution -
-formed in order to create a constitutional monarchy and remove power from the church and nobility -
-people of the third estate came together to protest and refused to disperse until a constitution for France was established -
-the people were afraid the King Louis XVI would go against the constitution so they attacked the Bastille. -Bastille was used as a symbol of cruel monarchy so by destroying it, they retaliated against the monarch. -Stormed the Bastille to also get gunpowder for their weapons. -Marks the start of the French's love for beheading their enemies. -
-a reaction to the food scarcity in France -stripped all the power away from King Louis XVI -women marched all the way to Versailles to force the king out of his palace and into Paris. -
-monarchy still existed but the power of the king was limited to just being a figurehead. -citizens(men) gained the right to vote -
-the constitutional monarchy became a democracy. -Girondins made King Louis XVI only a figurehead, but the Jacobins wanted him dead. -The Jacobins and Girondins faced many conflicts against one another. -
-the people deemed King Louis XVI guilty and sentenced him to guillotine on Jan. 21. -His wife and son got executed on Oct. 19. -
-Robespierre was the leader to the Joaquin club and beheaded anyone he saw as his enemies. -a huge massacre of people -Robespierre thought he was a god, and made the "Cult of Supreme Being" -
-Robespierre lost the support of the people due to his actions and got himself beheaded -his fellow members of the Joaquin Club were also beheaded. -Marks the end of the French Revolution.