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What event led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789?
What event led to the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789?
- The Storming of the Bastille
- Financial crisis and social distress (correct)
- Abolition of feudalism
- State control over the Catholic Church
What radical measures were taken by the Assembly after the Storming of the Bastille?
What radical measures were taken by the Assembly after the Storming of the Bastille?
- Convocation of the Estates General, financial crisis, and social distress
- Military defeats, economic depression, and monarchy abolition
- Abolition of feudalism, state control over the Catholic Church, and a declaration of rights (correct)
- Formation of the French Consulate, societal change, and political control
When did the French Revolution end?
When did the French Revolution end?
- July 1789
- January 1793
- November 1799 (correct)
- June 1793
When was Louis XVI executed?
When was Louis XVI executed?
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To which body did effective political power pass after a Paris-based revolt in June 1793?
To which body did effective political power pass after a Paris-based revolt in June 1793?
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French Revolution
- Financial crisis, led by the burden of debt and the failure to reform the tax system, prompted the convocation of the Estates General in May 1789.
- The Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, led to the radical measures taken by the National Assembly, including the abolition of feudalism, the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the reorganization of the French Church.
- The French Revolution came to an end with the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815.
- Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793.
- After a Paris-based revolt in June 1793, effective political power passed to the Committee of Public Safety, a radical Jacobin-dominated body.
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