1. The 3 estates are the clergy, nobility and everyone else. The clergy is the one who have religious duties. The nobility is the virtue. The everyone else is everyone!
2. Tennis Oath Court was an event during the first day of the French Revolution. The Oath was about how people have their own acts and not by the monarch. This was a pledge that was sign from 567 out of 577 members of the third estate that was not in the the meeting of the Estate general on 20 June 1789. All of the members signed but there’s one that did not sign, Joseph Martin Dauch.
3. The Bastille was ordered by Charles V of France. The first stone was laid on 22 April 1370, but it would not be completed in its 18th Century iteration until 1557. The Bastille was designed to be a highly fortified gate, to be integrated into the Paris city wall. Charles VI made it a stronghold, walling up openings and fortifying.
4. The Great Terror was a very horrible event that had occurred. Many innocent lives were gone. It occurred after the French Revolution, from 5 September 1793 - 28 July 1794. The one who started all this commotion was Never the less a guy named Robespierre. He used his position in the Jacobins committee to start it. For those who judges or opposed to his idealism will be soon be killed by the guillotine. In this Horror event it was estimated that 12,000 people were officially guillotined but there are others that was shot, drowned or put to death in another way and that 300,000 people were imprisoned.
5. The Divine Rights of Kings are the rules for the king. It says that only the king has the power to do everything. It is different from the declaration of the Divine Rights of Man because the Divine Rights of Kings don't have Liberty, Equality and Fraternity and the Divine rights of man say that all people are equal and can take part in high positions.
6. The Woman's march on the Versailles as one of the earliest and most significant events in the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were near rioting over the high price and scarcity of bread. Their demonstrations quickly became intertwined with the activities of revolutionaries who were seeking liberal political reforms and a constitutional monarchy for France.
7. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the last monarch for France, they were both guillotined by the French people before the French Revolution.
8.Girondins are the traditional ones, they wanted the change to France, but don’t agree to the Terror, and they are also the ones who are killed by the Jacobins. Monarchist are the ones who support the principles of monarchy. Jacobins are the radical ones, they want lots of change to France and they are also the ones who support the terror. Sans-culottes are the ones who support Napoleon together with the Jacobins.
9. The french revolution became violent because it was a more typical Revolution because it pitted classes of people against each other. In france the poorer folks working like slaves for the rich nobleman and king for hundreds of years. But when the time came the poor french people was full of frustration and anger, and that came out revenge.
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11. Napoleon’s career was that he was a general in a military. Napoleon was born in a sofa on August 15 1769. He died on 5th May 1821, on the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died because of Stomach Cancer. His battle strategy is that he will divide his troops into 2, and defeat 1 side of the enemy until it is done, then help the other team to defeat the other wing. His governmental plans is that
12. People were taxed really differently and was in an unfair way when Louis XVI was in charge.
The Third Estate, the poorest French citizen were treated as an inferior population. They paid taxes to the lords and could not climb the social ladder as all the privileges were determined by birth and not by talent. The price of the bread climbed sharply because of bad harvest and a growing population. The inflation was responsible for many deaths.
13. The French leader who were executed by the Guillotine were Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Maximilien de Robespierre
14. Maximilien de Robespierre was born in France on 6 May 1758. He was one of the main people in the French Revolution. He was the leader of the Jacobins. Robespierre was the oldest of four children in his family. He supported the execution of King Louis XVI. On 28th of July 1794, he was guillotined.
15. The large public debt and the unfair tax code which gave the nobles and the Catholic Church tax free status coupled with a government that was not representative or responsive to the majority of the population.
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