STUDY: FRENCH REVOLUTION

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Tennis Court Oath by the French National Assembly:

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vow to meet until a French constitution was produced.

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Louis XVI accepted the National Assembly’s decrees because of armed Parisian women who captured him and his family.

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Thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family.

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Brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

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Maximilien Robespierre

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Coup d’etat that ended the Directory was led by:

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Napoleon

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Napoleon’s Continental System aimed to:

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stop British trade with Europe.

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Group that paid all taxes in France:

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Third Estate

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Enlightenment thought in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed:

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an end to aristocratic privileges.

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Led by Danton and Robespierre, this group sent about 16,000 to the guillotine.

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Committee of Public Safety

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On July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed the _____________ after news of Louis XVI’s military plans against the National Assembly.

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Bastille

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Reason for women's march on Versailles, Oct 1789?

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Bread shortages in Paris.