| A | B |
|---|
| Tennis Court Oath | The 3rd Estates was locked out, so the 3rd estate broke into tennis court & pledged to stay until a new constitution was created. |
| Old Regime | the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution |
| Estates | * France's social classes * 1st estate: clergy, >1% of pop. * 2nd estate: rich nobles, 2% of pop. * 3rd estate: everyone else, 97% of pop. |
| Louis XVI | King of France during the Revolution; reactionary; wasted France's money and was executed by his own people |
| Marie Antoinette | King of France during the Revolution; reactionary; wasted France's money and was executed by his own people |
| Estates General | Traditional representative body of the three estates of France |
| National Assembly | Traditional representative body of the three estates of France that met in 1789 in response to imminent state bankruptcy |
| Great Fear | a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
| Bastille, Bastille Day | July 14, storming of the Bastille in 1789, French Independence Day |
| 1st Estate | Clergy/Church |
| 2nd Estate | Nobility/Artistoracy |
| 3rd Estate | Common people without title, 97% of population |
