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 |