| A | B |
|---|
| Old Regime | social and political system in France during the 1770s |
| First Estate | Catholic clergy (priests, church leaders) |
| Second Estate | rich nobles: 2% of population who owned 20% of French land |
| Third Estate | middle class, workers, and peasants; 97% of French population |
| bourgeoisie | middle class; some were wealthy, often well-educated |
| Which estate wanted change? | Third Estate; had few privileges, paid high taxes |
| some forces of change that led to French Revolution | new ideas about government, economic problems, weak leadership |
| estate | social class |
| Marie Antoinette | French queen, wife of Louis XVI |
| Louis XVI | French king, a weak leader who had no patience for the details of governing |
| Estates-General | meeting of representatives from all three estates called to impose taxes on nobility |
| National Assembly | body set up to make reforms by the delegates of the Third Estate |
| Tennis Court Oath | pledge to write a new constitution made by Third Estate delegates |
| Great Fear | refers to a wave of panic that rolled through France in 1789 |
| Bastille | Paris prison seized by mob on July 14, 1789; symbol of revolution |
| October 1789 riot over price of bread | event that forced Louis XVI to return to Paris from Versailles |
| Bastille Day | name given to French National Day, July 14, by English-speaking countries |
