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The French Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Supported
        
        Constitutional monarchy
        
        Limited suffrage.
      - Dominated Legislative assembly
      - Represented interests of wealthy bourgeoisie.
    - - Had more radical views
      - Wanted
        
        Establish a republic
        
        Introduce universal manhood suffrage
        
        To abolish monarchy
      - Represented the petite bourgeoisie
  - - - Took control of government
      - Were led by Robespierre and supported sans-culottes.
      - Imposed the Terror
        
        Dictatorship aimed to end internal revolts
        
        Widespread repression of counterrevolutionaries
        
        Constitution of 1793 was adopted
        
        Popular revolutionary army
        
        Law of Maximum was adopted
  - - - People attacked the Bastille
        
        Then Constituent Assembly
        
        Abolished the tithes paid by the peasantry to the clergy.
        
        Established equality in the payment of taxes
        
        Abolished feudal privileges
    - - Discontent among part of clergy
      - Emigration of many nobles
    - - Limited male suffrage
      - Separation of powers
      - Constitutional monarchy
  - - - Directory, a new form of government
      - Re-established limited male suffrage
    - - Established by Napoleon Bonaparte
      - Made up of three consuls
  - - - Which each representative would vote individually.
- - - - Support and put in practice their ideas
  - - - Court's excessive spending
      - Participation in military conflicts
  - - - They refused and demanded king to call Estates General.
    - - Priviliged class lose their privileges
      - Third Estate demanded
        
        Equality before the law
        
        End to the clergy and nobility's privileges
      - Spread of Enlightenment ideas