Chapter 12, section 2
Reasons French People were Upset
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Country in debt
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Food shortage
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Increase in population
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Monarchy = no voice from the people
 Reasons French people were upset:
 Country in debt
 Food shortage
 Increase in population
 Monarchy = no voice from the people
 People feared King Louis XVI was going to force the National Assembly out, and they
decided to take action
 July 14, 1789– Storming of the Bastille
 Violent Revolution lead to a new government in Paris
 The revolution in Paris spread through all of France
 By August 4, 1789, the National Assembly did away wit feudalism in France
 Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen = explained basic human rights
and political powers
*Believed in equality for men, not women
 Slogan: Liberty, equality and fraternity
 Constitution of 1791, provides constitutional monarchy
 French Nobles fled to Great Britain, Switz and Germany