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Meeting of the Estates General
Meeting of the Estates General was the first meeting of the three estates, the first estate was the rich, second estate was the middle class, third estate was the poor people who made up 98% of the population. The third estate couldn´t get along with other estate so they broke off and created the national assembly. -
Tennis Court Oath
the members of the French Estates-General for the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established.
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the Storming of the Bastille
The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. Was broken into and all the prisoner were freed. -
Declaration of Rights
Declaration of Rights Its 17 articles created by the national assembly ´men are born and remain free and equal in rights´ it gave people equal amount of power so that the upper class did not have more power than the poor who made up most of the population. -
March on Versailles
March on Versailles an angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women, marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles in what was to be a pivotal event in the intensifying French Revolution. Also many women were armed and dangerous. -
Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the french revolution began many politicians were killed as many as 25,000 people were killed. -
The Rise of Napoleon and Creation of an Empire
Napoleon was military leader in france that quickly rose up the ranks during the french revolution. He also was a empor that conquered most of europe in early 19th century. -
The Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814.
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Napoleon’s Empire Collapses
Napoleon’s Empire Collapses because of the he Continental System he thought he could weaken great britain's trade system but it backfired. Also the peninsular war was between Napoleon's empire and the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.
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