| A | B |
|---|
| First Estate | clergy ( members of the church) |
| Second Estate | nobles |
| Third Estate/Bourgeois | middle class - peasants, factory workers, doctors, teachers, basically anyone who had a job! |
| Absolute Ruler | Monarch |
| Bastille | prison that French people attacked that sparked the French Revolution |
| Constitutional monarchy | a monarch who is limited by law |
| Estate General | legislative assembly in which each estate had one vote |
| Tennis Court Oath | Oath the Third Estate made that said that they would not leave the tennis court until King Louis XVI came to talk with them. |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | The document the National Assembly made that listed the rights of French citizens. |
| National Assembly | Government started by the Third Estate when King Louis XVI did not meet with them on the tennis court. |
