Summary: History French Revolution

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  • 5.1 Problems in France

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  • Who were all in the Second Estate?

    The king and queen, nobles.
  • Who were all in the Third Estate?

    Peasants, shopkeepers, merchants.
  • In which year did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette mary?

    1770 to improve the political relationship between Austria and France.
  • Why was France almost bankrupt in 1789?

    Because they helped in the American war of independence in 1778 against Britain.
  • What was the nickname of Louis XIV?

    The sun king, he said that he was chosen by god.
  • What did Louis XIV do?

    Made Versailles a home for all nobles, protected trading in France (mercantilism and he displayed his wealth in the palace of Versailles.
  • What did the nobility not like in the 1789 Estate-General?

    Because Louis XVI wanted to prevent bankruptcy, he proposed that the nobility would also pay taxes.
  • 5.2 French Revolution I

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  • What was the Tennis Court Oath?

    A pledge of the third estate and it's sympathisers not to break-up the National Assembly until a new constitution in Paris.
  • What was the Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen?

    In 1789, a declaration was written by the National Assembly, stating that everyone is born free and is equal in the eyes of the law.
  • 5.3.1 French Revolution II

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  • What happened in 1792?

    The National Assembly officially ended the monarchy which was replaced by the French Republic with a new government. This started a violent chapter in French History, The Reign of Terror.
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