| A | B |
|---|
| 1789 | start of French Revolution and Beginning of United States |
| causes of French Revolution | fuedalism and inequality |
| estates | three classes: clergy,nobility and commoners |
| 98% | third estate |
| taille | tax on commoners: economic cause of revolution |
| bourgeoisie | middle class in third estate owned 20-25 % of land |
| immediate cause of Fr Rev | collapse of finances in the fr. govt |
| enlightenment thinkers | philosophes: rousseau, montesquieu, locke |
| marie Antoniette | queen who spent on court luxuries |
| Louis XVI | King who felt he had Divine Right to rule; beheaded |
| National Assembly | the third estate formed a new governing body; one vote for each member |
| Tennis Court Oath | Third estate sworn promise to write a constitution and keep meeting |
| Storming of Bastille | commoners who destroyed the royal jail started the revolution |
| Declaration of rights of Man | National Assembly's first act: freedom and equal rights for all men; taxes for 1st and 2nd estate |
| Catholic church | institution that lost much of its land and property in the revolution; new calendar eliminated Sunday |
| Versailles | lavish palace King Louis and Marie A were forced from |
| Olympe de Gouges | woman who declared political rights for women |
| Constitution of 1791 | formed legislative assembly with limited authority for king and new legislative Assembly to make laws |
| radicals | bloody group tht formed the Commune that mobbed and captured king and Legislative assembly |
| sans-culottes | people who were peasants without "fancy clothes" ; power of the commune |
| George Danton | minister of justice revenge on kings supporters arrested and guillotined thousands |
| Marat | radical leader who wrote "Friend of the People"- poor had a right to take from the rich through violence |
| Girondins | radical group who wanted to keep the king alive |
| Jacobins | radical group who eventually caused King to be beheaded |
| committee of public safety | Formed from the national convention 12 members to prevent other countries from invading france |
| Robespierre | leader of the Committee of Public Safety called"the incorrptible" |
| Reign of terror | caused by national Convention and Committeee of Public Safety prosecution and execution of 40,000 declared "enemies" of France killed |
| coup d'etat | sudden overthrow of the government led by general Napolean Bonaparte- ending Rule of Directory |
| Directory | Five directors of the last govt under the National assembly |
