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The American Revolution
The american revolution is also known as the american revolutionary war, tensions between the British colonies and the colonial government.The summer After there first conflict the rebles were waging a full on war. -
Tennis Court Oath
The National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath which is, "Not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constittution of the kingdom is established." The National Assembly was locked out of the meeting hall and went to a nearby tennis court and took the oath. -
Fall of the Bastille
A mob from Paris broke into a royal armory and stole many weapons and attacked Bastille. Bastille is a prison who only had seven prisoners but it becam a symbol of triumph over tyranny. -
The Great Fear
Peasants became paniced and started to riot because they were surrounded with rumors of Aristocratic Consipiracy. Afterwards the Natoional Constituent Assembly ordered the demolition of the feudal regime and introduced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The National Assembly believe that the flaws in man are the main reason there are riots and conflict, set up unalienable rights. They made them to constantly remind citizens of their rights and duties. -
The Women's March
This movement intensified the French Revolution, an angry mob of seven thousand women armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets, marched from Paris to Versailles. They were demanding bread and were demanding to see "The Baker", "The Baker's Wife", and "The Baker's son". -
Execution of the King
King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French National Convention, he is beheaded in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. Once he assembled the Three Estates, the commoners (Third Estate) declared themelves the National Assembly. -
Reign of Terror Starts
This is period of of violence that was fueled by conflict between the Girodins and Jacobins. The Revolutionary government decided to take very harsh measures of who the they thought were against the revolution. -
Execution of the Robespierre
He was the architect of the french revolutions reign of terror who encouraged the guillotine and was arrested by the national convention. A law was passed that suspects couldn't defend themselves and sent straight to a sentence over 1400 people died because of that. He was executed because no one felt safe and he as power hungry. -
The Directory Established
The Directory was a group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III. They were chosen by the Council of Five Hundred. The directory caused a economy crisis. prices soared and the treasury was empty.
