Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CAUSES
- Heavy taxation on 3rd estate
- People unhappy with ruling
- Deficit Spending from King Louis XVI
- LEADERS
- King Louis XVI
- France
- Joseph II
- Austria
- Catherine the Great
- Russia
- Frederick the Great
- Prussia
- MAIN EVENTS
- Rumors of the "Great Fear" spread
- Women marched to Versailles; demanded bread
- The Tennis Court Oath; June 20, 1789
- 1. Continuously meet
- 2. Create fair/just constitution
- 3. Rename themselves "The National Assembly"
- Storming of the Bastille
- SOCIAL CLASSES
- Clergy
- Nobles
- Peasants