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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (I) - Coggle Diagram
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (I)
What?
Period of political and social changes
1789
Abolition of the absolute monarchy
End of the estates system
First European bourgeois revolution
Causes of the French revolution
Combination of factors
Influence of the Enlightenment
Intellectuals and bourgeoisie wanted to put on practice
All French subjects be free and equal before the law
Economic crisis
French monarchy in debt
Court's excessive spending
Parties
Palaces
Because French participation in military conflicts
American War of Independence
Social crisis
Privileged estate
Able to maintain their income
Third estate
Suffered for rising taxes
Political crisis
Privileged estate should pay taxes
Nobility and clergy refused
National Assembly
What?
Third estate asked for a new way of voting
King refused
Third estate declared as the true representative of nation, National Assembly
King locked the National Assembly out of estates general
So they met in a tennis court, until France had a constitution
Constituent Assembly
What?
King agreed Third Estate's demand
Finally Constituent Assembly was formed to write a constitution
This was a triumph for bourgeoisie, cause monarchy was no longer absolute
14 July 1789
Troops were sent to Versailles, led to a riot
People attacked the Bastille
Constituent Assembly
Made reforms in order to satisfy demands from peasantry and urban masses
1790
Constituent Assembly passed Civil Constitution of the Clergy
State could be elected by the people
1791
Assembly approved the constitution
Constitutional Monarchy
Powers of the monarchy were limited
Limited male suffrage
Only men with certain amount of property could vote
Separation of powers
Legislative power
Executive power
Judicial power
