Chapter 14 Activity
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
- Peasants paid the most taxes
- Over 18,000 people got beheaded
- There was a major book called a tale of two cities
- Thomas Jefferson was us minister at the time
- King louis XVI was killed jan 12 1793
2 FACTS
- French got the idea from america
- The first battle was when the french took over a prison
- The prison was named la bastille
- They invited a guillotine that chopped people heads off
- First battle on july 14 1789
3 FACTS
- A new decimal calendar was made
- louis XVI improved the blade to a triangular blade on the guillotine
- 10,000 african slaves where freed after the war
- The royal family try to escape during the war but was caught
- They freed 7 slaves from the bastille
4 FACTS
- Jew was illegal but was allowed after the war in France
- Bastille means bastide
- Marie antoinette was believed to pay her exincutioner to make the blade sharp
- Lasted from 1789 to 1799
- Napoleon helped in the war
