The French Revolution

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  1. 3. Used to restore the power of monarchs, stopped the spreading of democratic ideas, restored the monarchy
  2. 8. France in a frenzy, people are not revolutionary enough, suspected of undermining republic. Causes thousands of beheadings
  3. 10. A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
  4. 11. The 3rd estate is everything, and has representation
  5. 15. Called by King Louis XVI when the economy was in ruins
  6. 16. The 3rd estate attacked on July 14, 1789, demanding equal representation and privileges of other estates
  7. 19. Queen of France during the French Revolution
  8. 20. King of France during the French Revolution
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  1. 1. Rumors were spreading that the king was going to kill peasants, led to violence against nobles, landowners, and kind and queen
  2. 2. 1st and 2nd estate lock out 3rd estate, and 3rd estate forms the national assembly
  3. 4. A palace used by King Louis to keep an eye on nobles
  4. 5. Gave 3rd estate more rights, and led to the first voting in Europe in 1790
  5. 6. A single set of laws stating that all adult men can vote, people have access to a public education, freedom of religion, and put ideas of equality, government, and representation into the political system
  6. 7. Head of the Reign of Terror, established merit (no titles or nobles)
  7. 9. The estate that had no freedoms, and had to pay all taxes
  8. 12. Overthrows military, crowns himself emperor
  9. 13. A political system consisting of three estates
  10. 14. A forcible overthrow of government or social order; in favor of a new system
  11. 17. Peasant uprising, consisted of 7000 people with pitchforks and stakes
  12. 18. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.