National Assembly takes action after the storming of the Bastille.
- The Nobles agreed to give up privileges such as hunting rights, legal status, and exemption from taxes.
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man was created and it stated that all men were born with natural rights.
- Women were angry that they were denied the rights of men, but when they spoke out in public they were imprisoned or executed.
- Louis XVI refused to accept the reforms and continued to enjoy banquets while people starved.
- On October 5, about six thousand women marched 13 miles from Paris to Versailles.
- Marie Antoinette was compassionate to the poor, however she was against reforms and often fled to Petit Trian where she lived her own life of amusement
- To pay off the large amount of government dept, church lands were voted to be sold.
- National Assembly put the French Catholic Church under state control.
- The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was created in 1790.
- Under the Constitution of 1791, France went from an absolute monarchy by to a limited monarchy.
- The king attempted to escape but failed.
- Emigres were nobles, clergy, and others who fled France and its revolutionary force.
- Foreign forces began to threaten France to protect the Monarchy.
- Sans-culottes were working-class men and women.
- A Republic was a government that was not ruled by a monarch.
- Jacobins was a political cub filled with middle -class lawyers or intellectuals.