AP European History / Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
5.4 The French Revolution
Notes
Causes: debt, unfair taxes on the Third Estate, Enlightenment ideas, bad harvests. Events: the Estates-General (1789), the Tennis Court Oath, the storming of the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the execution of Louis XVI (1793), the Reign of Terror (Robespierre).
Practice
The Third Estate was made up of:
Paid most taxes.
The Reign of Terror was led mainly by:
1793–1794.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed:
1789.
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