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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - they attacked the Bastille
    - - attacked the homes of the nobility
      - burned their archives
      - refused to pay feudal duties
    - - passed a range of legal reform
        
        they abolished feudal privileges and the tithes
        
        they established equality in the payment of taxes
      - wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
      - In 1790 passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
        
        It subordinated the church to the French state
        
        to solve the French state's financial problems
    - - they became counterrevolutionaries
    - - he asked Austria for support
      - he tried to escape from France
    - - It established
        
        limited male suffrage
        
        the separation of powers
        
        a constitutional monarchy
  - - - Two main political groups
        
        The Girondins
        
        they had moderate views
        
        they supported the constitutional monarchy and limited suffrage
        
        they represented the interests of the wealthy bourgeoisie
        
        The Jacobins
        
        they had more radical views
        
        They wanted to establish a republic and introduce universal manhood suffrage
        
        they represented the petite bourgeoisie
    - - Austria
      - Prussia
    - - France's defeats at the hands of the European armies
      - Louis XVI's reluctance to accept the revolutionary changes
    - - they revolted and attacked the Tuileries Palace
        
        Result
        
        Louis XVI was imprisoned
        
        France became a republic
  - - - Louis XVI was executed for treason
    - - imposed a dictatorship: the Terror
        
        led by Robespierre and supported by the sans-culottes
        
        they introduced measures
        
        why
        
        to fight against its European enemies: Austria, Prussia, Great Britain and Spain
        
        to end internal revolts led by the counterrevolutionaries
        
        which
        
        There was widespread repression of counterrevolutionaries
        
        The Constitution of 1793 was adopted
        
        A popular revolutionary army was formed
        
        The Law of Maximum was adopted
        
        It fixed maximum prices for basic products
  - - - re-established limited male suffrage
      - introduced a new form of government called the Directory
        
        five directors
    - - As a result of
        
        the threat that the radical revolutionaries might return to power
        
        the continuing foreign war
    - - He wanted to restore peace at home and abroad
      - he established a new form of government called the Consulate
        
        three consuls (Napoleon was named First Consul for Life)
      - he introduced reforms to end France's political and economic instability
  - - - the Third Estate formed the National Assembly
- - - - the court's excessive spending on luxuries
      - France's participation in military conflicts
    - - the peasants and the urban poor couldn't buy bread
  - - - The privileged estates maintained their income
      - the Third Estate suffered from rising taxes
  - - - The nobility and clergy refused
        
        they demanded that the king call the Estates General
- - - - clergy and nobility
        
        they were opposed to losing their privileges
      - The Third Estate
        
        end absolute monarchy
        
        abolish tithes and end feudal privileges
        
        equality before the law