HUMAN RIGHTS👊

TYRANNY💀

KING LOUIS XVI
King Louis XVI is a French king who wanted to strike Great Britain so sent 12,000 soldiers & 32,000 sailors to help America win the war against the British.

👑QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE

ESTATES(1,2,3)

• The first estate was the social class of church officials
• The second was the class of nobles
• The third estate was the left overs or bourgeoisie

ESTATES GENERAL
An estates general is an assembly made up of representatives from all of the estates.

🎩ARISTOCRACY
Aristocracy is the form of being a noble.

Bourgeoise is the middle class.

The National Assembly is a form of government consisting of delegates from the 3rd estate.

The fall of the Bastille was when Paris exploded into rebellion and a large crowd stormed the Bastille (a prison and weaponry chamber) and managed to set the prisoners free.

The tennis court oath happened when the National Assembly met on the Kings royal tennis court to write a new constitution.

The declaration of rights of man and citizens is a document that stated that government got its power from the people, not the king and basic freedoms.

A RADICAL

The national convention was a form of government that was set up by radicals. These groups were only allowed by French defeats.

Jacobins are people part of a democratic club that was the most ruthless and radical of the political groups formed in the French Revolution.

The committee of public safety was another form of government that was set up by the national convention to crush opposition to the revolution.

Robespierre was a lawyer who gained control of the C.O.P.S. and he had supporters who killed anyone in favor of the monarchy return or believed to be disloyal to the revolution.

The time when Robespierre killed 40,000+ people because of being accused of disloyalty to the revolution was known as the Reign of Terror.

The directory was another type of government that included 5 people from the middle class and was established to run the government but lacked support rom the people.

Napoleon was a French general who was considered a hero but used his popularity later on to control the army,appoint government officials,and also declared himself as emperor.

COUP D'ETAT

Dictatorship is when government or a country is run by a person who has total power and control.

NAPOLEON CODE