| A | B |
|---|
| Abdicate | To step down from power |
| Plebiscite | A ballot in which voters say yes or no |
| Sans-culottes | Working class men and women |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Bourgeoise | upper middle class |
| The three estates | Clergy, nobles, and peasants |
| The French constitutions | 1789, 1791,1792, 1795, 1799 |
| Robespierre | Head of Committee of Public Safety |
| Reign of Terror | Revolutionary courts put to death about 15% of nobles and clergy |
| Countries annexed by France | Netherland, Belgium parts of Italy and Germany |
| Congress of Vienna | Gathering of European leaders to restore stability and order to Europe |
| Necker's financial reforms | A financial wizard and adviser to King Louis XVI-nobles and clergy fforced the king to dismiss him |
| Napoleonic Code | A centralized state with a constitution, elections with expanded sufferage, citizens rights to property and education |
| Emigres | Nobles and clergy who fled revolutionary forces of France |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Wrote first draft of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man |
| Thomas Paine | American patriot who moved to France and was elected to revolutionary government |
| The Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Ended Papal authority over the French church bringing it under government control |
| Women march on October 5 | "Bread!" they shouted, and demanded the king move back to Paris |
| The political position described as "left" | Those whose political position is for radical change |
| Republic | Government ruling by elected representatives. |
| Where were the roots of the discontented feelings with government? | Peasants, burdened by taxes and ideas of the Enlightenment, began to question the inequalities of society |
| What economic troubles heightened social unrest? | Deficit spending on lavish court life style and expensive wars, poor harvests causing economic decline. |
| The Cahiers | Notebooks of grievances prepared by all three estates |
| The majority of the third estate | Peasants |
| When third estate delegates were locked out of the Assembly Hall | They met on a tennis court and vowed not to separate until a just government was in place |
| Reason for storming the Bastille | Rumors that there were militia and weapons stored there |
| Marks the beginning of the revolution | Storming of the Bastille |
| First phase of the Revolution | National Assembly (1789-1791) |
| Second phase of the Revolution | Escalating violence (1792-1793) |
| Third phase of the Revolution | Reign of Terror (1793-1794) |
| Fourth phase of the Revolution | The Directory (1795-1799) |
| Fifth phase of the Revolution | Age of Napoleon (1799-1815) |
| When the National Assembly voted to end special privileges, the Nobles... | Gave up nothing they had not already lost. |
| The Declaration of the Rights of Man was modeled after... | The Declaration of Independence in America. |
| Louis XVI attempted to escape France | The disguise is uncovered and he is then considered a traitor to the Revolution |
| Countries and Kingdoms abroad begin to feel threatened by revolution in France | The Declaration of Pilnitz is signed to warn of military protection to French Monarchy by other countries |
| The most radical of the Republicans made up of mostly lawyers that wanted total change. | Jacobins |
| War is declared on these countries | Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain |
