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1
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When was the storming of Bastille

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14th July 1789

2
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What weapons did the crowds take

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28,000 muskets and 20 cannons

3
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Why did they storm the Bastille

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believed there was ammunition in the prison

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What was the significance of the storming of the Bastille

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  • King lost control of Paris
  • Assembly no longer under threat of being dissolved by King
  • Real power was now with elected representatives
  • Louis could no longer dictate to the assembly
5
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When did the peasant risings start

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Early 1789

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What were the peasants primarily concerned with

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farming

7
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What led to the peasant food riots

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Bad harvest of 1788 and the rising bread prices

8
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What did the peasant risings grow into

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Great Fear

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What was the Great Fear driven by

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rumours- stories circulated of marauding brigands who were stealing grain from the fields or preparing to attack farming families

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How did the assembly respond to the great fear

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abolished feudal rights (august decrees)

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Key reforms in the August Decrees

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  • all seigneurial courts were abolished with no compensation
  • all tithes and fees abolished
  • all loans or harvest shares could be bought back
  • there would be no more venality
  • no payments to priests
  • feudal dues were abolished
  • all citizens would pay same taxes on everything
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What was the significance of the August Decrees

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  • started removal of ancien regime

- all Frenchmen had the same rights

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What was the nature of the declaration of the Rights of Man

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  • Largely created by Lafayette
  • principles for the new constitution of France
  • Guaranteed freedom of expression, opinion, religion ad free trial
  • stressed the importance of an elected assembly
  • clearly showed influence of the enlightenment
14
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When was the Declaration of the rights of man passed

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26th August 1789

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Which enlightenment principles was the declaration of the rights of man particularly derived from

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Montesquieu- insistence in the ‘separation of powers’

Rousseau- social contract

16
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What was the nature of the King’s guards banquet

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-mocked and trampled revolutionary cockade

17
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How many people stormed to Versailles on 5th October

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7,000 women and 20,000 national guard

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What was the outcome of the storming to Versailles

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  • King was forced to agree to August Decrees and Rights of man as well as grain for Paris
  • King and his family also forced back to Paris
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What was the significance of the October Days

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  • got King back to Paris where he regarded himself as a prisoner of the mob
  • showed that the people were far more important than the assembly
  • Louis’s title changed