Choose three of the main events of the French Revolution listed below. Explain whether each event moved France closer to a representative government or further away from it and why. Representatives of the Third Estate declare themselves the National Assembly.

A mob storms the Bastille.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is written.

The National Assembly is replaced with the National Convention, which writes a constitution allowing all males to vote.

Thousands of nobles are executed during the Reign of Terror.

A third constitution gives power to a Directory and limits voting to property-owning males.

Napoleon takes power from the unpopular Directory in a coup d'état.

Napoleon names himself Emperor of the French.