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The King during this event
Louis XVI
This caused France to be in debt and also inspired the French revolution.
France supported the American revolution.
American Independence.
How did Robespierre died?
The guillotine.
The leader of the Jacobins
Robespierre
Why did the moderates failed to maintain power?
Because France was still badly in debt and people were still had no food to eat.
Wife of Louis XVI, Queen of France, From Austria
Marie Antoinette
This caused the people to be unhappy, the king thought this will solve the financial situation.
Racing taxes to the third estate.
It was summoned by the king as a response for the situation.
Les estates general
When did the Reign of terror ended? After what event.
After Robespierre was executed.
After this event, the King and Queen were considered traitors, this influenced in their later execution and the abolition of the monarchy in all its forms.
They tried to flee the country.
His periodical L'Ami du peuple (Friend of the People) made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793.
Jean Paul-Marat
Poor weather and other factors made the crops fail. This was the thing that started everything.
People were starving.
This was created by the third estate as a response for the inequality of votes in the Estates General.
National Assembly.
Who were the Jacobins?
The most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789 and following.
The first constitution established France as a....
Constitutional monarchy.
He began in the revolution as an artillery officer, but trough the demonstration of his strategy skills he improved his political position until getting to the top.
Napoleon Bonaparte
She had an exorbitant way of life, too many expenses and too many luxuries, this made the people call her nicknames, she had a very bad public opinion.
Marie Antoinette.
When this castle was taken, the revolutionaries got powder, it was one of the first battles.
La bastille
What was the reing of terror?
A period during the French Revolution after the First French Republic was established in which multiple massacres and public executions occurred in response to revolutionary fervor, anti-clerical sentiment, and frivolous accusations of treason by Maximilien Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety.
What is the tenis court Oath?
A promise that they would never rest until a constitution was created.
His periodical L'Ami du peuple (Friend of the People) made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793. Killed in his bath tub.
Jean Paul-Marat
War with Great Britain that caused the French treasury to get empty.
Seven years war.
What is the women's march?
An angry mob of nearly 7,000 working women – armed with pitchforks, pikes and muskets – marched in the rain from Paris to Versailles. The women chanted “Bread! Bread!” –
What was the commitee of public safety?
Its role was protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.
What did the declaraion of Pillnitz said?
Austria and Prussia wanted to get back the monarchy to france.