InNo+samuelguo0801+9.6.2010

media type="custom" key="6872253" width="240" height="240" This is a flow chart of what happened. Hopefully this is easier to understand and more interesting than the notes.

Notes: Revolution, 1789 The Storming of Bastille The women march to Versailles The king and the assembly Reforms of the National Assembly The reform of the Church Flight to varennes The Road to war
 * National Assembly was a victory for third estate
 * Louis moved 20,000 troops into Paris
 * People afraid that they will break up National Assembly
 * On 12 July Louis replaced the finance minister with one that opposed the third estate
 * People started to gather weapons to defend themselves
 * People stole thousands of guns
 * Heard there were a lot of gunpowder in the Bastille fortress
 * People hated Bastille
 * Where the people that received sealed letters were sent
 * They broke in to Bastille
 * Destroyed everything
 * Wanted to destroy it because it was a symbol of power
 * Had control of Bastille by evening
 * Louis did not like National Assembly decisions
 * Refused to sign them, therefore cant become law
 * When women of Paris heard this
 * Marched through the cities
 * Collected weapons
 * Oct 5, they marched to Versailles with knives, sticks, rifles, and two cannons
 * Marched to Versailles to protest
 * Complained about bread prices and the extra soldiers
 * Wanted the king to come back to Pairs
 * So they can keep an eye on what he does
 * They broke in and killed two body gaurds
 * They threatened to kill the queen
 * King, queen, and oldest son traveled to Paris with a crowd of 60,000
 * Followed the royal family to Paris
 * Took over riding school as meeting place
 * Next two years they made new laws, and changing the way France was run
 * Male tax payers over 25 had a right to vote
 * Church land was confiscated to pay off debts
 * Paid off debt by giving people assignats
 * Use this to buy confiscated church land
 * Local government reorganized, elected by citizens
 * Protestants given same voting rights as Catholics
 * France divided in 83 councils
 * Jews given same rights
 * Salt tax abolished
 * Most masonstries closed down
 * Assignants became French currency
 * Noble titles abolished
 * Church reformed under 'Civil Constitution of the Clergy'
 * Bishops and priests elected
 * Take an oath of loyalty to France
 * New law system: judges are voted
 * Traites taxes abolished
 * Tax on land intorduced
 * Trade guilds abolished
 * Slavery in France abolished
 * Assembly introduced a consitution
 * There were two sides
 * One side thought they had too much money, land, and power
 * Many of the clergy led unholy lives
 * Another side were Catholics
 * Had no problem and saw no reason to change
 * Assembly took alnd and money from church
 * Catholics protested and they got increasingly loud
 * July 1790, drew up a law reducing the power of church
 * over half of clergy refused this law
 * they thought the government had to right to intefere with church affairs
 * pope conemned the new law
 * then on separated by those who took oath and who swore the oath
 * entire nation was split on the matter of the church's power
 * Louis not happy with constitution
 * sided with the priests not taking the oath
 * Louis left france, urged by family and advisors
 * they wanted to join up with prists
 * they already had an army
 * wanted to get help form queens brother
 * leaving was not easy
 * people suspected them
 * left guards at every door
 * they had to escape secretly
 * Midnight 21 June 1791,
 * Royal family in disguise crept our of the palace and escaped
 * when still 50 km away
 * they were recognized
 * new sent ahead and people were waiting for them in Verannes
 * were arrested and sent back to Paris
 * Queens brother, king leopold, said that he would help them
 * called upon king of pursia and other euro kings to take action
 * no intention of attacking france
 * a gesture out of protecting his sister
 * there were rumors that the people were about to invade
 * some french wanted it
 * louis thinks france would lose and he would be back in power
 * others thought that the war would force louis to show whose side he was on
 * if he takes takes side of invaders
 * they can dethrone him