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The French Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - agreed to the Third Etsate demand
    - - write a constitution
    - - no longer absolute monarchy
    - - riot in Paris
        
        the Batille was attacked
      - countryside
        
        peasants
        
        attacked homes of the nobility
        
        burned their archives
        
        refused to pay feudal duties
      - 14 July
        
        troops sent to Versailles
    - - legal reforms
        
        abolished
        
        feudal privileges
        
        tithes paid by the peasantry to the clergy
        
        payment of taxes
        
        eaqual
      - confiscated and sold church property
      - 1790
        
        Civil Constitution of the Clergy
    - - nobility
      - clergy
    - - asked support to Austria against the revolution
        
        failed
  - - - main political groups
        
        Jacobins
        
        petite bourgeoisie
        
        radical views
        
        republic
        
        universal manhood suffrage
        
        Girondins
        
        wealthy bourgeoisie
        
        moderate views
        
        constitutional monarchy
        
        limited suffrage
        
        they dominated legislative assembly
  - - - ask for a new voting system
        
        each representative one vote
        
        the king
        
        refused
        
        The Third Estate declared
        
        as the true representative of the nation
        
        it was forming a National Assembly
        
        loocked National Assembly
        
        out of the Estates General
        
        until France had a constitution
  - - - convention
        
        agreed to execute Louis XVI
        
        for treason
        
        beheaded by guillotine
      - Jacobins
        
        control of the goverment
        
        dictatorship
        
        the Terror
    - - popular revolutionary army
      - widespread repression of counterrevolutionaries
        
        opposing the revolution
        
        executed
      - Constitution of 1793
        
        universal manhood suffrage
      - Law of Maximum
        
        make sure that people could buy food
        
        stop speculation
  - - - moderate deputies
        
        overthrew the Jacobins
    - - new constitution
        
        limited male suffrage
        
        Directory
        
        conservative
        
        mede up of
        
        five members
    - - 1799
        
        organised a military coup
        
        aime
        
        restore peace
      - established
        
        new form of government
        
        Consulate
      - 1802
        
        he was named First Consul for Life
        
        reforms
        
        end instability
      - 1804
        
        absolute poweR
        
        French Revolution
        
        end
- - - - causes
        
        court's excessive spending
        
        parties
        
        palaces
        
        luxuries
        
        participation in military conflicts
        
        The American War of Independence
  - - - maintain income
    - - rising taxes
  - - - supported by
        
        French intellectuals
        
        bourgeoisie
  - - - suggested
        
        privileged estates should pay tax
    - - demanded the king
        
        call the Estates General
- - - - most of nobility and clergy
        
        opposed to losing their privileges
      - Third Estate
        
        demanded
        
        equality before the law
        
        no privileges
        
        bourgeoisie
        
        participate in politics
        
        peasants
        
        abolish
        
        feudal privileges
        
        tithes
  - - - Third State
        
        twice as many representatives