HST 211- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
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Storming of the bastille: on july 14, 1789, a crowd of people stormed the bastille, a prison in france, and captured it from the guards, successfully challenged royal authority, causes confusion with the king of france. They took anger out on their landlords instead of travelling all the way to the king: peasants had an uprising against landlords, this event has nothing to do with what"s happening in versailles. National assembly abolishes feudalism: august 4, 1789. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen: august 26, 1789. Queen, marie antoinette: she briefly escapes, but this causes an uprising in the crowd, the king eventually calms the crowd. Constitution of may 1791: officially changes frances political structure, the national assembly was replaced by the legislative assembly, the legislative assembly has political power. The legislative assembly was to be elected but certain people could not vote.