What happened

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1789

• What happened?

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Unacceptable Situation en France

• High bread prices because of a shortage
• Low wages
• Other areas of the economy suffered
• Rise of the bourgeoisie
• Anti-absolutism sentiment

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Failure of Louis XVI to fix France
The French people did not stand for starvation
without representation
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What preceded the Revolution?

• The people began losing interest in divine right
  of an absolute ruler in a time of Enlightenment
• It did not help the governments cause that the
  clergy held a good deal of political power

Notre Dame cathedral
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And

• Recent participation in the American Revolution
• Exhausted funds
• Spurred revolutionary morale

The Battle of Yorktown successfully marks
Frances help in securing the American Revolution
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Also

• Bourgeoisie growing angry with the Estates
  General
• They wanted equality

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Bourgeoisie

• The social class between the lower and upper
  classes
• The middle class
• The capitalists

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1789 Estates-General

• First meeting since 1614
• The Third Estates anger mounted because although
  the were the largest in numbers, they still were
  only able to give 1 vote
• They represented all from the peasantry to the
  propertied class
• The other 2 estates would not comply with the
  Third Estates bargains for equality

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French peasants revolted

• (SOL STANDARD WHII.6e)
• Now you can describe the French Revolution! Well
  almost.

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Citations
Aftermath

• Abolition of the monarchy
• France pronounced a republic
• Fissure between the radical and moderate members
  of the National Assembly (previously known as the
  Third Estate)
• The Reign of Terror

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