Stages+of+the+Revolution+Chart


 * __ The French Revolution __**

Tennis Court Oath Bastille Great Fear Night of Aug 4, 1789 || Liberal Nobles Bourgeoisie Peasants, Church || Conservative nobles, King* || King recalls Nat’l Assembly (after Bastille) Elimination of feudal dues (after Great Fear) || National Assembly brings the power of the King down and gives themselves rights. Try to empower themselves to improve the country. || Recalling of National Assembly, Movement of King and Queen to Paris, || National Assembly(Liberal Nobles) Peasants || King || King loses power substantially, eventually being executed. Madame Guillotine* ||
 * ** Step 1: Collapse of the Old Regime ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Due to overwhelming debt and the need to reform the tax system, Louis XVI agrees to call the Estates General. || Nobles and bourgeoisie hope to limit power of king. Also are annoyed at king asking for taxes, want to usurp power. || National Assembly
 * ** Step 2: Limited Monarchy ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Recalling of the National Assembly by Louis the XVI which prompted the Declaration of the Rights of Man. || The rise of liberalism [or individual rights]
 * ** Step 3: The Terror ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * Foreign wars as well as civil wars threaten the liberty of the people of France || The state wants to stop any revolutionary behavior within France and draft people to stop foreign wars || Mobilization for war || Mountains, Robespierre, Sans-culottes ||

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 * Church

The Directory's support of war fed conservatives growing yearning for peace. || The instillation of the Directory || The Bourgeois, Peasants, The Directory || Peasants, || The lack of economic controls angered the poor, but the assertion of the Convention's military hushed their revolutionary fervor. The Directory, a five man executive, and a democratically elected Legislative Assembly was instilled but the Directory soon began to nullify elections and rule dictatorially. Ironically, this went against the original intentions of the revoltution. || Battle of Waterloo, || Napoleon, France || Prussia, England, Russia, Austria || After the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated after his hundred days from escaping from imprisonment. ||
 * The Committee of Public Safety and Robespierre helped the French defeat foreign invaders and allowed nationalism to unify France. ||
 * ** Step 4: Thermidorian Reaction ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * The execution of Robespierre. || The bourgeois, became hedonists because of the end of the Terror and used the Convention to quell the anger of the poor.
 * ** Step 5: Napoleon ** ||
 * **Precipitating Event** || **Revolutionary Focus** || **Critical Events** || **Proponents** || **Opponents** || **Results** ||
 * The absolving of the Directory by Napoleon in a coup d'e tat. ||  || Battle of trafalgar,