Use the chart below to record descriptions of the key causes and events of the
Revolution. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, write an essay that answers the
s or the key causes and events of the start of the French
paper, write an essay that answers the question that follows.
KEY CAUSES/EVENTS
OF FRENCH REVOLUTION
DESCRIPTION
The Three Estates
The Enlightenment
Meeting of Estates-
General, May 1789
Storming of the Bastille
Declaration of the Rights
of Man and the Citizen
New constitution of 1791
Rise of the Paris
Commune