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1,000
300,000
95%

 3 estates
 Catholic Clergy (1 st estate)
 Nobility (2 nd estate)
 Bourgeoisie/Peasant/Middle
Class (3 rd estate)
 1 st and 2 nd estate didn’t have to pay taxes!
 Basically…still a feudal system!
 Age of Enlightenment

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France was almost bankrupt!
 Helping colonists in American Revolution
Ruled by King Louie and Marie Antoinette

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Discuss with a partner and come up with 3 reasons why the Revolution happened… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkF61De
YD24 (half of video)
 Take notes on the causes and characteristics of the revolution (note guide provided)

http://www.history.com/topics/frenchrevolution/videos/origins-of-the-french-revolution
 They day the revolution started! July 14, 1789
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 Like our 4 th of July!
The storming of the Bastille
 Rioters storm the Bastille fortress for weapons and gunpowder!

 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
Citizen
 Inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution!
▪ Freedoms/equal rights for all men
▪ No tax exemptions
▪ Nothing for women though..

http://www.history.com/topics/frenchrevolution/videos/coroners-report-guillotine
 Reign of Terror
 The execution of over 40,000 people (enemies of the revolution)
 Led by Maximilien Robespierre

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“Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” – Liberty, equality, fraternity.
 The battle cry during the Revolution and national motto of France now!
French tricolor (flag)–origins: French Revolution

http://www.history.com/topics/napole on
 Napoleon Bonaparte
 Nickname: Little Corporal or
Little Corsican
 Accomplishments: Helped end the Rev, Napoleonic
Codes, invading most of
Europe, crowning himself emperor..what?
 Defeated: at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon/videos/therise-ofnapoleon?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free
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 http://bit.ly/qwrk7B

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarU nVpo (use for warm up)