Friday, March 14, 2014

chapter 32 1-5 questions

2.) First was the clergy, second was the nobility, third was everyone else in France.
3.) They issued the Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen.
4.) The people of France had grown more conservative.
5.) In Paris mobs began to form. On July 14, 1789 a mob in search of weapons attacked and captured the Bastille. This was an old fort used as a prison. To the mob it was a symbol of the tyranny or unjust use of power, of the monarchy. The mob then killed the mayor of paris and set up a new city government.
           News of what happened in Paris spread. In the countryside, there were rumors that the nobles were planning to hire brigands, or roving bandits, to destroy the peasants' homes and crops. so the peasants attacked and burned the house of the nobles and destroyed all records of feudal dues.

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