Zusammenfassung der Ressource
French Revolution (1789-1799)
- Reaosns for revolut
- Financial
- Crop Shortage/failure
- Heavy Burden of taxes
- Inflation
- Unresponsive King
- King Louis XVI
- Married Marie Antoinette
- Arch rival country, Austria.
- Who revolted
- 3rd Estate vs. 2nd and 1st Estate
- 3rd Estate: Middle
Class, 97% of pop,
paid 50% taxes
- Bourgeoise- Well
educated, highest of
3rd estate
- Workers-
Cooks,
servants,
unskilled,
middle of
3rd
- Pesents-
(Sans-Culottes)Farmers,
80% of French
population
- Paid the
most in taxes,
livelihood
dependent on
econmy
- 2nd Estate
- Nobles, 2% of
population owned 20%
of land, 0% tax
- 1st Estate
- Catholic Church, owned 10%
of land, 1% of population, 2%
of income tax
- Outcome of Revolt
- Creation of National Assembly
- Collection of
Third Estate peole
- Didn't
want king,
wanted
power to
people all
entitled to
rights
- Louis's Assembly of Nobles
- Called for more taxes
- Haitian Revolution
- Cause of Revolut
- Declaration of rights of
Man pamphlet made its
way to St. Domingue
- Slogan:"Liberty, Equallity, & Fraternity"
- Slaves believed that applied to them too.
- Key People
- Toussaint
- Wrote 1st Cons. Built forts, schools, etc, Lead Revolut single
handedly, nick named "Black Napolean", wrote letter to
Napolean about accoplishments, and was jailed.
- JJ. Dealines
- 1st President, Toussaints right hand man.
- Boukman
- Early, Great leader of Revolution
- Outcome
- Since Slaves
outnumbered all
others 15:1, they ran
first successful slave
revolt
- Key People
- Lafayette
- Wrote Declaration of the rights of Man and Citzen
- Member of
National Assembly