| A | B |
|---|
| Clergy | First Estate |
| Nobility | Second Estate |
| Commoners | Third Estate |
| First and Second Estates | Controlled much of the wealth in France, but were exempt from paying taxes |
| Third Estate | Had to pay taxes to the government and some peasants still owed duties to nobles |
| Bourgeoisie | The middle class of France; they were angry because they did not have the same privileges that were granted to nobility |
| Estates | French society was divided into status groups called... |
| Causes of Financial Crisis | Bad harvests, unemployment, rising prices of food, and food shortages |
| Louis XVI | King of France |
| Estates-General | Representative government of pre-revolutionary France |
| National Assembly | The Third Estate declared themselves the ____ and would draft a new constitution |
| Tennis Court Oath | The National Assembly met at a local tennis court and swore their oath of loyalty to France and to not leave until a new constitution was drafted |
| Bastille | Parisians stormed this prison in France demanding ammunition on July 14, 1789; this day is seen as a national holiday in France |
| French Economy | The immediate cause of the French Revolution was the near collapse in this... |
| The Great Fear | Peasants started robbing the homes of nobles in search of food |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Head of the National Guard |
| National Guard | Militia created to defend Paris against royal troops and to defend the revolution! |
| Paris Commune | Replaced the royal government in Paris and helped revolutionary ideas to spread |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | A French Bill of Rights that brought along the ideas of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" |
| Marie Antoinette | Queen of France - Louis XVI wife |
| Tuileries Palace | Palace in Paris where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were taken and held a virtual prisoners for 3 years! |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Called for priests to be elected by the people of France and and to be put on salary income |
| Legislative Assembly | Branch of the National Assembly that had the power to make laws |
| Emigres | Nobles, clergy, and others that fled France and its revolutionary forces |
| Declaration of Pilnitz | Foreign powers threatened to intervene to protect the French monarchy |
| Assignats | Revolutionary currency |
| San-Cullotes | Members of the Paris Commune that pushed the revolution into a more radical phase |
| Jacobins | Radical revolutionary political group in Legislative Assembly |
| National Convention | Radicals took control of the National Assembly and turned it into this as the new French government |
| French Republic | The National Convention declared France a ____ where the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote |
| Executed | Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were ___ during the radical phase of the revolution |
| Girondins | Non-revolutionary group in the National Convention - rival group of the Jacobins |
| Committee of Public Safety | Created by National Convention to deal with threats to France AND BATTLE THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Leader of Committee of Public Safety THAT BATTLE NON-REVOLUTIONARIES and thought that France could achieve a republic of virture through the use of terror |
| Reign of Terror | Time period where revolutionary courts had trials convicting those against the revolution and the French Republic through the use of terror |
| Guillotine | Device that was used a lot during the Reign of Terror for beheading and came to be a symbol of horror which was seen as necessary to achieve goals of revolution |
| Olympe de Gouges | Wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman where she demanded equality for women - she was later executed during The Reign of Terror |
| The Directory | A more conservative government of the revolution that ruled from 1795-1799 that set up a five man governing board with a two-house legislature elected by male property owners |
| Nationalism | Having a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country - this new revolutionary spirit was created in France after the revolution |
| La Marseillaise | French National Anthem |
| Year of the French Republic | A new non-religious calendar was created with 1793 as Year I of the new era of freedom also known as the... |
