1. The Revolution Begins: The Meeting of the Estates-General in 1789 & the Tennis Court Oath.

2. The people Take Charge: The Storming of the Bastille & the October Bread Riot.

3. Taking on the World: Changes to France & war with Europe

4. The King Must Go: Louis XVI's attempted escape & his execution

5.  Desperate Measures: The Committee of Public Safety & the Reign of Terror

6. We've Had Enough: The Fall of Robespierre & the Directory

7. We Need a Hero: The rise of Napoleon

8. A brief conclusion that explains how the events of the French Revolution changed France and contributed to the growth of democracy.

Key Players in the French revolution 

Louis XVI 

Jean-Paul Marat

Maximilien Robespierre

Napoleon

Marie Antoinette 

French society included a system of estates.

    The first estate includes the church and the royal family.

    The second estate included the clergy and nobilities. 

    The third estate included peasants who had no privileges like farmers or servants of the king.

In France under the Old Regime, the Estates-General or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates, which were called and dismissed by the king. The Third estate would never have a vote that counted because it was the first and second estate against the third. The third estate would always get outvoted. The way the estates general worked was unfair. The representatives were chosen by order instead of my head. What this means is that each state had the same amount of representatives. If this government voted by the head the third estate would have the most representatives because they made up 97% of France's population. 

During the French Revolution, the National Assembly, which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General; thereafter it was known as the National Constituent Assembly, although the shorter form was favored.  This assembly was formed because the first and second estates locked out the third estate from participating in the government. This assembly was formed in a tennis court where the third estate's representatives took refuge after being locked out.  In this tennis court, the third estate representatives took an oath to not leave until they have created a new constitution for the country of France.

The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. Priests celebrated the "Christ-Fraternité" and blessed the trees of liberty that were planted at the time. When the Constitution of 1848 was drafted, the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" was defined as a "principle" of the Republic. Versailles was King Louis XVI's palace.  The women and mothers of Versailles stormed the palace and demanded that the king and queen move back to Paris. Because the queen put France in debt it caused the king to raise bread prices. The people had no money to pay for bread so they started rioting, stealing, and even lynching suspected bread hoarders.

Because the queen put France into deep debt it caused the king to raise bread prices. The people had no money to pay for bread so they started rioting, stealing, and even lynching suspected bread hoarders. The great fear was a period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. The Great Fear was a general panic that took place between 22 July to 6 August 1789, at the start of the French Revolution.

The national assembly created a new constitution for the country of France in 1791. It gave the some monarch some power but the rest resided with the legislative branch or parliament. This was also known as a limited monarchy where the king did not have all the power. This happens when a king agrees to share power with the parliament.  Another name for a limited monarchy is a constitutional monarchy.

The National Assembly seized the properties and land held by the Catholic Church and decided to sell them as assignats. The assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy that subordinated the Catholic Church in France to the French government. Seven Weeks' War, also called Austro-Prussian War. The war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. It ended in a Prussian victory, which meant the exclusion of Austria from Germany. Émigré, any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime.