| A | B |
| first estate | clergy, paid no taxes, owned 10% of land |
| second estate | nobility, top jobs, paid no taxes |
| third estate | 98%; bourgeoisie (middle class) and everyone else; paid taxes |
| discontent of third estate | taxes, privileges of other classes, enlightenment ideas |
| economic troubles of France | debt, poor harvests, failure of reform |
| Estates General | law making group of France |
| cahiers | list of grievances, Louis asked each estate for them |
| Tennis Court Oath | Third Estate (bourgeoisie) pledged to write a constitution |
| Bastille | symbol of absolute royal power, beginning of French Revolution |
| Phase One | National Assembly turned France into a constitutional monarchy |
| Great Fear | panic in French villages, riots |
| Lafayette | moderate leader of the French Revolution in the beginning |
| National Guard | militia of the middle class to fight royal troops |
| tricolor | new flag of revolutionary France |
| Paris Commune | radical group at start of Revolution |
| National Assembly | name of government during phase 1 (moderate) |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | modeled on John Locke, protect natural rights; all male citizens equal |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity | slogan of French Revolution |
| role of women | bread riots, forced King to return to Paris |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy | France took over the Catholic Church |
| Constitution of 1791 | set up a limited monarchy |
| French plague | European rulers feared ideas of the French Revolution |
| sans-culottes | pushed revolution more radical; wanted no monarchy; working class men |