| A | B |
|---|
| Third Estate | poor farmers, common workers, and middle class |
| Marie Antoinette | married Louis XVI |
| absolute monarchy | French government before the French Revolution |
| problems facing France before the Revolution | food shortages, government debt, unevenly distributed tax system |
| American Revolution | influenced the French Revolution |
| peasants | paid the most taxes |
| guillotine | method of execution during the Reign of Terror |
| lettres de cachet | secret warrants of arrest |
| execution of Robespierre | ended the Reign of Terror |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | document signed by Louis XVI which stated the rights of the French people |
| storming the Bastille | event that began the French Revolution |
| Great Fear | peasants attacked nobles manors to destroy records |
| King and Queen of France | beheaded |
| emigre | French noble who left France |
| fall of Bastille | showed popular support of revolution |
| Bastille | symbol of oppression |
| Reign of Terror | period where Robespierre tried to eliminate all opposition to the revolution |
| estates | social classes of France |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | former slave who led an uprising against France |
| one vote | number of votes each estate received at Estates General |
| goal of French Revolution | gain freedom and equality |
| National Assembly | new government of France formed by the third estate |
| Maximillien Robespierre | Jacobin who led the Reign of Terror |
| end of French Revolution in 1799 | Napoleon became dictator |
| Enlightenment | to question and distrust |
| Versailles | home of the French monarchy before the French Revolution |
| Robespierre, Danton and Marat | Jacobin leaders |
| influence of enlightenment ideas, dislike of French Monarchy, French participate in American revolution | causes of the French Revolution |
| red, blue and white | colors of the French tricolor |
| Reign of Terror | Jacobins crushed enemies |
| L'Ouverture (Haiti); Bolivar (South America), Robespierre (France), napoleon (France) | revolutionary leaders |
| Jacobins | power group during the Reign of Terror |
| Latin America | influenced by French and American Revoulution |
| Enlightenment ideas | influenced bourgeoisie during the French Revolution |
| Tennis Court Oath | pledge to not disband the National Assembly |
| Legislative Assembly | government establishd by the Constitution of 1791 |
| French Independence Day | the fall of the Bastille |
| Jean Paul Marat | Jacobin assassinated in his bathtub |
| second estate | nobility |
| debt and famine | 2 problems in France before the Revolution |
| Bourgeoisie | upper middle class of France |
| Estates General | after 175 years, met on May 5, 1789 |
| Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | king and queen of France |
| Bolivar and L'Ouverture | Latin American leaders of independence movements |
| Maximilien Robespierre | Jacobin, began the Reign of Terror, incorruptible, |
| Simon Bolivar | freed the nations of Colombia, peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela from Spanish rule |
| estates | first (clergy), Second (nobles), Third (peasants) |
| causes of the French Revolution | enlightenment ideas, few rights for people, debt |
| Jacques Necker | Louis XVI's finance minister |
