Part II, based on History Alive

3. The meeting of the Estates General: May 5 th , 1789 Voting took place by Order (One vote per Estate)

6. The Third Estate gets fed up!

7. The Tennis Court Oath: June 20 th , 1789 Members of the Third Estate meet after being locked out of Versailles. Pledge never to disband (break apart) until a new Constitution is written.

10. Not all of King Louise XVI power is lost. He can still veto any law that is passed by the assembly! Meanwhile…in an attempt to solve France’s financial crisis, the newly elected government seized the land of the Catholic Church and the land of any nobles who fled France. The National Assembly wrote a Constitution, but…

11. The Revolution will soon turn violent & radical…

13. The Storming of the Bastille: July 14 th 1789 1/4 th of Paris is unemployed, bread prices went sky high and a rumor was spreading that the King’s troops were coming back to Paris…

19. The March on Versailles : In the months following the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, unemployment and hunger increased. On October 5 th 1789 7,000 women marched the twelve miles from Paris to Versailles to demand bread…