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Revolt/ National Assembly (rights of man, women's march, church, constitution. (really long name for revolution)
Who: National assembly, people of france.
What: Equality for all male citizens, D.O.T.R.O.M., equality and freedom.
Where: France
Why: People in the thrid estate were being treated harshly and as bread prices rose, the king and nobles simply ignored them.
How: Surfs, and peasants were starving along with their friends and family. -
Divided French Society and Financial Trouble
Who: Poorly payed people, hungry, and unemployed.
What: Bread prices rose and nobles lowered pay checks, making the hungry people, unemployed, and poorly payed angry, pushing those people to create riots.
Where: Paris, France
Why: Nobles thought economic reform would be the way to high bread prices.
How: People in the third estate began to hunt down nobles. -
The Estates General
Who: The 3 Estates
What: The Estates General got together to discuss the financial troubles of the people and fix them.
Where: France.
Why: People in the third estate were raging over high bread prices.
How: The king of France Louis XVI summoned the States General. -
Storming the "impenetrable" Bastille
Who: 800 Parisians
What: An angry mob broke through the defenses if Bastille, killed the commander along with 5 guards.
Where: Paris France.
Why: The mob of people demanded the guards for weapons and gun powder, the commander refused and opened fire to the crowd.
How: The mob outnumbered the guards making easy to storm through, but many people were killed. -
Threats from Abroad
Who: King of Prussia and Emperor of Austria.
What: The king of prussia and the emperor of Austria threatened to intervine to protect the french monarchy.
Where: France.
Why: The king of Prussia and the Emperor of Austia wanted the Queen Marie Antoinette and the king Louis XVI to be safe.
How:The king of prussia and the Emperor of Austria declared war on france . -
Civil War (weirdos take over)
Who: Radicals, Sans - Culottes
What: The Sans-Culottes pushed the revolution into a more radical action.
Where: France
Why: The radicals wanted nothing to do with the old france so they pushed into extreme events and drastically changing it.
How: The radicals competed for power and soon they had the upper hand on the legislative assembly, verbal wars moved the the battle field. -
Monarchy is Abolished
Who: Citizens of Paris, Radicals.
What: Radicals, and the citizens of Paris took over the assembly, overthrew the king and degraded the power of the catholic church
Where: Paris France.
Why: The people of Paris thought the kind gave unfair taxes and they thought of him as a traitor.
How: Radicals took control of the assembly with help of Paris crowds. -
Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
Who: Robespierre.
What: Robespierre belived that france could only achieve a "republic of Virtue" through promt, severe, inflexible, justice.
Where: Paris France.
Why: Robespierre thought that the only way to secure the liberty of the people would be by killing all the people who broke the law.
How: The committee of public safety would gathe all the people seen as suspects to be taken to be executed by the guillotine. -
Third Stage of the Revolution
Who: Moderates, five man directory.
What: The five man directory and both the legislative branches were being over runned by other groups of people.
Where: Paris, France.
Why: High bread prices made the Sans-Culottes angry, and the Catholic Church was still angry due to their lose of power due to past even, these two groups got together to create chaos.
How: People Tried to revolt but the directory suppresses them, so the people voted against them in order to get rid of them in a peaceful maner. -
Spread of Nationalism
Who: The French.
What: People began to dress more like the Sans-Culottes and people began to show national pride.
Where: Europe.
Why: People wanted to get rid of the bitter mark the old france left, to show their freedom and their nationalism towards France.
How: People dressed morel ike the Sans-Culottes, new holy days came to life, France was now ran by the 12 man council, and the catholic church was no longer a state power .
