French Revolution

Financial Crisis

France is bankrupt

Reign Of Terror.

3rd class is getting irritable due to lack of food and government.

Bread Riots.

King Louis XVI called for meeting of the estates genreal to solve crisis.

Tennis Court oath.

Demand for Constitutional Monarchy.

lead to reign of terror.

Demand for Constitutional Monarchy.

Lead to Tennis Court Oath after Louis XVI locked peasants out of meeting.

Lead to National Assembly.

The Spark

John Locke

Philosoph.

Influenced the nature of society.

Made people believe they should be judged as individual not by social class.

Government has power because people consent to be governed.

Lockes ideals

Tabula Rosa.

Locke believed that people are born without "programming" that they must learn to be good or evil.

Two Treatises

Nobody has more power of authority over another.

Priveledge of people to be able establish new legislature

State of nature is unsafe and insecure.

Thomas Hobbes

Strong Central Government needed

Believed that humans desire power

Social Contract theory.

The Spark.

Louis stations troops outside Paris

Citizens storm Bastille for guns, weapons, troops.

Bread Riot signaled the end of the monarchy

Reforms.

Declaration of Rights of Man adopted

Confiscated Church Lands

Set up Legislative Assembly

Radical Measures

Austria and Prussia pressure the revolution with demand Louis be put back into power.

Louis' guards massacred and royal family imprisoned.

1st and 2nd estates slaughtered by mobs to never let them be given their power back

Jacobins.

Radical Political Party

try and execute Louis XVI

Execute Marie Antoinette

Maximilien Robespierre

Represented 3rd Estate in Estates General

tried to wipe out all traces of nobility and Clergy

Executed when CoPS turned on him

Committee of Public Safety

Robespierre lead committee who was in charge of France at time

Robespierre executes anyone less radical than he or potential rivals to his power

Executed Robespierre for fear he would gain ultimate power.