1. The French Revolution

2. The Back-story The Financial Crisis… The Agrarian System…
~ #1 cause of revolution…
The Agrarian System…
~ 80% of population = rural…Seigneurialism
Social / Legal Class Structure
~ Estate System created legal orders…

3. Revolution & Reorganization (1789-1792)
From the E.G. to the N.A…
~ Oath of the Tennis Court…(6/17/1789)
Peasants Rally!
~ The Storming…(7/14/1789)
From the N.A. to the L.A…
~ Initial Reforms…
~ L-XVI arrested…(7/1791)
~ Rise of Legislative Assembly…(9/1791)

4. Revolution & Europe (1792) Movement towards War... The Terror
~ Declaration of Pillnitz…(8/27/1791)
The Terror
~ The Storming of the Tuileries…
(8/10/1792)
~ The September Massacres…

5. The Emergency Republic (1792-1795)
The National Convention…
~ L-XVI executed…(1/21/1793)
Committee of Public Safety…
~ Reign of Terror…(4/1793)

6. The Constitutional Republic – The Directory (1795-1799)
Thermidorean Reaction…
~ formation of The Directory…
Crisis of 1797…
~ Fructidor Coup…(9/4/1797)
Coup of 1799…
~ Napoleon takes over…

7. The Consulate (1799-1804) End of Revolution and Reform…
~ The creation of The Consulate…
~ Final reforms…

8. The End…