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National Assembly

Estates General

Women's march on Versailles

Storming of the Bastille

Tennis Court Oath

Parisians storm and dismantle a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Absolute Monarchy(Bourbon Kings)

National Assembly met at a tennis court nearby where they took an oath to not disband until they created a new national constitution

The third estate feared that they would be overruled and outvoted. Because of this fear, the third estate broke away and formed what?

Women from Paris marched to the Palace at Versailles, captured Louis XVI and his family, and forced them to come to Paris.

A general meeting where representatives from the French estates (the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners) gathered.