UNIT 2- THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS

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  • REFUSED INDIVIDUAL VOTE

    The king refuses to allow an individual vote.

  • NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

    The third estate deputies declare themselves the National Assembly. They begin meeting separately and are later joined by some of the clergy and nobility.

  • NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

    National Assembly soon becomes the National Constituent Assembly and begins to write a constitution for France.

  • STORM OF BASTILLE

    BEGINNING OF POPULAR REVOLUTION
    People of Paris take the streets and they storm the Bastille (a fortress and symbol of royal authority.

  • PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY

    To bring an end to the Old Regime, the proclaim the abolition of the estate system and establish the principle of all men before the law. This puts an end to seigneurial rights and Church tithes.

  • DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

    Another form to bring an end to the Old Regime, they passed the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a statement of the natural and inalienable rights of all men.

  • CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERY

    Another format bring an end to te Old Regime, they passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which reduces the clergy to the civil status of citizens.