Zusammenfassung der Ressource
French Revolution
- Causes
- Enlightement thinkers
- Political
crises
- Economic Crises
Anmerkungen:
- The state was bankrupt as a result of its participation in military cinfliscts, such as American War of Independence.
- Social crisis
- Nobility and clergy wanted to
protect their traditional economic
privileges, and refused to pay
taxes
- The third state were suffering from
economic difficulties causes by wars,
higher taxes.
- Major events
- The National Assembly
Anmerkungen:
- 3rd state proposed a new voting system in which each representative would have an individual vote. Whenking refused they declare themselves as the true representatives of the nation
- They demanded a constitution
- The Constituent Assembly
- The king agreed =New constituent assembly
- They attacked Bastille
Anmerkungen:
- After that more riots broke out in the countryside and in cities around France
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen
Anmerkungen:
- All men are born free and equal in their rights
- Louis XVI tried to escape
to Austria
- Legislative Assembly
- Girondins
- Belived in revolution, but
representes the interests of the
bourgroise
- Jacobins
- Belived in revolution, but their political ideas
gradually became more radical.
- Put the king in trial
- Expand the suffrage
- Control price rises to help the workers
- The Convention
- Louis XVI accused of treason and then executed.
- European countries formed
coalition and declared war
on France to stop revolution
- The Diresctory
- Was a more conservative goverment which was composed of 5 members
- Consulate
- Military coup lead by Napoleaon Bonaparte