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Estates General
The estates general is called together because the king wants to figure out how to make more money from taxing the peasants. -
National assembly Formed
This was formed by individuals of the third estate that were unhappy about what the king was doing and wanted to do something about it. -
Storming Of the Bastille
The Bastille in France was known as a symbol of Tyranny. the angry third estate took it over and tortured the soldiers that were protecting it to show how upset they were. -
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Angry peasants
The poor harvests of 1780 caused the king to grow uneasy and started taxing the third estate more which consisted of mostly peasants. In tern the peasants got very angry and started revolting. -
Womens March of Versailles
This event gave the third estate confidence knowing that they had a very large amount of people upset with the king and willing to do something about it. -
Execution of Robiespierre
After being the person who started the revolution people began to grow unhappy with him and they way that he had lots of innocent people killed.