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FRENCH REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Bourgeoisie
      - French intellectuals
        
        people free and equal under the law
  - - - Clergy
      - Nobility
        
        300 representatives
      - Peasants
        
        600 representatives
        
        One vote each group
        
        unfair system
  - - - because
        
        royal family
        
        increase taxes
        
        military conflicts
  - - - discontented with the crown
        
        nobility and clergy
        
        refused yo pay the taxes
        
        bourgeoisie
        
        wanted to abolish the absolute monarchy
        
        petite bourgeoisie
        
        suffered because higher taxes
        
        peasantry
        
        economic problems
        
        wars
        
        taxes
        
        poor harvests
- - - - true representatives of the nation
        
        they formed
        
        National Assembly
        
        demanded a constitution
  - - - 14th of July 1789
        
        storming of the bastille
        
        beginning of french revoution
    - - abolished feudal rights
      - Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
        
        all free, equal and freedom
    - - first constitution
        
        constitutional monarchy
        
        popular sovereignty
        
        separation of powers
        
        limited male suffrage
  - - - Girondins
        
        interests of bourgeoisie
        
        liberal economic policies
        
        maintain limited suffrage
        
        were more moderate
      - Jaconins
        
        interests of petite bourgeoisie
        
        were more radical
        
        abolish the monarchy
        
        expand suffrage
        
        gained support of Parisian labourers
    - - declared France a republic
  - - - executed
        
        gillotine
    - - declared war to France
        
        to prevent the revolution from spreading
    - - Robespierre was their leader
        
        imposed a dictatorship
        
        Terror
  - - - middle class gained control
        
        conservative governent
        
        composed by 5 members
    - - France was still at war
        
        Napoleon Bonaparte
        
        coup d'état
        
        new form of government
        
        Consulate
        
        three consuls
        
        1 more item...
    - - Napoleon named himself
        
        fist consul for life
    - - He declared himself
        
        Emperor of France
      - Domestic policy
        
        Civil code
        
        new legal concepts
        
        civil marriage
        
        divorce
        
        adoption
        
        state education
      - International policy
        
        expand his empire
        
        enlightened and revolutionary policies
- - - - constitutional monarchies
      - republics
    - - popular soverignty
      - separation of powers
    - - limited male suffrage
      - civil rights
    - - thanks to elections
  - - - all had to pay taxes
    - - private property
        
        rigts
        
        free trade
  - - - ceased to exist