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Age of Revolution (French Revolution 1789 (Revolution Begins (Storming of…

- - - - France's involvement in Amer. Rev. left France in debt
      - King Louis XVI ruled over a state that was seizing up
      - The Three Estates
        
        did not share the same burden of the debt, nobles and clergy rode the backs of the poor and working class
      - debt doubled under King Louis XVI
    - - non-nobility declared loyalty to the citizens and were barred from the meeting hall
        
        Tennis Court Oath - "liberty, equality, fraternity"
  - - - first victim was Louis XVI, then his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette
      - nobles followed after the king and queen
- - - - resulted in a British Victory
  - - - historically new idea for the time
      - tried to spread their ideas through propaganda
- - - - argued for a break from the English monarchy
      - urged Americans to think big: politically, geographically historically
      - suggested that whatever happened in America would affect everyone else
        
        people watched in fascination
      - Americans had the privilege to start the world new again
  - - - Res Publica - the public matter
      - why would anyone want a republic?
        
        seen as weak, undesirable
        
        unnatural and temporary