1. French Revolution
A Brief Review

2. Liberty Leading the People

3. Old Regime
Used feudalism to control the state.

4. First Estate Clergy

5. The Second Estate Nobles

6. Third Estate Peasants & Bourgeoisie

7. Who is carrying society?

9. Taxes

10. Estates General Louis XVI called them in an attempt to tax the nobles.
An effort to raise money.

11. National Assembly Makes the Tennis Court Oath
Organized by the Third Estate.
Swore not to leave until they had made a constitution.

12. Storming the Bastille July 14th = Independence Day
Citizens feared an attack from the government.

13. Great Fear
Peasants heard rumors that the nobles were going to destroy their harvests.
Attacked nobles’ houses and destroyed documents stating they owed nobles.

14. Declaration of the Rights of Man
Life, Property and Security

15. Legislative Assembly
Responsible for creating laws.

16. Inflation
Due to high inflation, lower classes could not even afford bread.

17. Madame Deficit

18. Execution of Louis XVI - 1792

19. Jacobins Radicals during the French Revolution.
Believed in very little government control of the state.

20. Guillotine 18,000-40,000 executed during the Reign of Terror

21. Robespierre
Chairman of Committee for Public Safety

22. Reign of Terror

23. Forced from power by his fellow revolutionaries

24. Directory 5 people held executive power
Keep one person from gaining too much power.
All had the right to veto = problem.