| A | B |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France |
| French Revolution | 1789 |
| Bastille | Prison that was torn down |
| Sans-culotte | Means "without knee-britches" |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Committee of Public Safety |
| Guillotine | Instrument used to behead individuals |
| First Estate | Clergy |
| Second Estate | Nobility |
| Third Estate | Middle Class and Peasants |
| Tennis Court Oath | Where members of the Third Estate signed a pledge |
| Louis XVI | King during the Revolution |
| Revolution | Uprising against the current political regime |
| Reign of Terror | 40,000 people killed |
| Debt | Money the French owed due to previous wars |
| Taxes | How the king attempted to earn money to pay the French debt |