| A | B |
| Great Fear | Rumors of government troops attacking towns and stealing crops for the use of the king |
| Faction | dissenting groups of people competing for power |
| Marquis De Lafayette | "Hero of two worlds" head of French National Gaurd. First to dawn the tricolors |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | First attempt at drafting a constitution based on the American Declaration of Independance |
| Proclaimed | announced officially |
| Olympe de Gouges | Female journalists who pushed for women's equality with the Decleration of rights of Women |
| Women March to Versailles | 13 mile march to bring the royal family back to Paris |
| Marie Antionette | Queen of France who took little notice of politics. Lived lavish court life style |
| Paris | Revolutionary Center of France |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Clergy placed under state rule and had to be elected by the people |
| Emigres | Clergy, Nobles, and Peasants who fled France and spread stories about the revolution to the outside world |
| Sans-culottes | working class men and women who pushed revolution in more radical direction. |
| Republic | government ruled by elected representatives instead of a monarch |
| Jacobins | Middle class lawywers or intellectuals who supported the sans-culottes and spread their word through pamphlets and newspapers |
| Declaration of Pilnitz | Prussia and Austria signed a pact stating they would attack revolutionists if they countinued to push for reform |