| A | B |
| Royalists | Those who continued to support the king |
| Continental System | Plan that forbade trade with Great Britain |
| 3rd Estate | Comprised 97 percent of the French population |
| Bastille | Paris Prison stormed by a mob |
| National Assemble | Formed by those locked out of the Estates-General- National Assembly |
| Jacobins | Group of extreme radicals |
| Carls Bad Decrees | Repressive measures designed to stifle dissent |
| the higher clergy | Included bishops and abbots |
| Absolute Monarchy | Type of French government before the revolution |
| Napoleanic code | The unified French legal system |
| Indemnity | money paid by France for war damages |
| plebiscite | decision by popular vote |
| radicals | wated to imprison royals and abolsigh monarchy |
| bourgeouisie (3rd Estate) | doctors, lawyers, and merchants |
| Concert of Europe | regular meetings of the European powers |
| Unicameral Legislature | a one-house assemble |
| Girondists | rivals of the Jacobins |
| Estates General | rarely called meeting of the three social classes |
| tithes | income tax placed on church members |
| Committee of Public Safety | ruled France during the Reign of Terror |