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The bourgeois revolutions and the Spanish War of Independence image,…

- - - - political
      - social
      - saw the abolition of the absolute monarchy
      - end of the estates system
        
        Ancien Régime
  - - - influence of the Enlightenment
        
        put them into practice.
        
        French intellectual
        
        bourgeoisie
        
        demanded that all French subjects
        
        free and equal before the law
      - economic crisis:
        
        French monarchy was heavily in debt
        
        because of the court's excessive spending
        
        palaces
        
        other luxuries
        
        parties
        
        France's participation in military conflicts
        
        American War of Independence.
    - - Louis XVI
      - opposed meetings of the Estates General
        
        estates could not limit his power
        
        resent their demands
        
        face of the nobility and clergy's demands
        
        forced to call the Estates General
        
        1789
    - - social
        
        economic crisis
        
        affected each of the three estates
        
        privileged estates
        
        able to maintain their income,
        
        Third Estate
        
        suffered rising taxes,
        
        only estate that paid tax.
      - political
        
        improve royal finances
        
        Louis XVI's ministers suggested
        
        privileged estates should pay tax
        
        nobility and clergy refused
        
        call the Estates General.
        
        only body able approve new taxes
      - increased prices
  - - - Pamphlets
        
        written by intellectuals
        
        supported Enlightenment ideals
        
        contributed to the start
    - - collected the demands of their social group
      - clergy and nobility
        
        opposed to losing their privileges
      - Third Estate
        
        equality before the law
        
        end to the clergy and nobility's privileges
        
        enlightened bourgeoisie
        
        end absolute monarchy
        
        able to participate in politics.
        
        peasants
        
        abolish tithes
        
        end feudal privileges.
    - - three estates met separately.
      - one vote/state
      - Third Estate had twice as many representatives as the other estates.
  - - - Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
        
        put Enlightenment ideas into practice
      - Third Estate
        
        new voting system
        
        king refused,
        
        each representative would vote individually
      - locked by the king
        
        met at a tennis court nearby
        
        not leave the tennis court until France had a constitution
    - - 1791 , approved the constitution
        
        constitutional monarchy,
        
        powers of the monarch
        
        limited by the constitution.
        
        limited male suffrage
        
        only rich men could vote
        
        separation of powers
        
        monarch had executive power
        
        assembly had legislative power,
        
        courts had judicial power.
      - Civil Constitution of the Clergy
        
        solve state's financial problem
        
        Constituent Assembly confiscate
        
        sold church property
        
        1790
        
        subordinated the church
        
        clergy not be paid by the state
        
        clergy would now be paid by the stat
      - emigration of many nobles
        
        discontent among part of the clergy
        
        lea by the measures
        
        counterrevolutionaries
        
        campaign to defeat the revolution
      - new Constituent Assembly
        
        king agreed to the Third Estate's demands
        
        write a constitution
        
        triumph for the bourgeoisie
        
        monarchy was no longer absolute
      - 14 July 1789,
        
        troops were being sent to Versailles
        
        led to a riot in Paris
        
        attacked the Bastille
        
        political prison
      - legal reforms
        
        oped would satisfy the demands
        
        peasantry
        
        urban masses
        
        abolished feudal privileges
        
        tithes paid by the peasantry to the clergy
        
        equality in the payment of taxes.
      - popular revolt
        
        spread from Paris to other cities/countryside
        
        peasants attacked the homes of the nobility,
        
        burned their archives
        
        refused to pay feudal duties
        
        Grande Peur
    - - political
      - economic
    - - 1789
      - Louis XVI
      - increase taxes
      - beginning of the French Revolution