The Estate System
This estate included clergy and made up of .5% of the population
The First Estate
These ideas challenged traditional authority and promoted liberty and equality
Enlightenment Ideas
This group payed the most taxes
The Third Estate
What happened July 14, 1789 that sparked the French Revolution
The Storming of the Bastille
This estate was made up of nobles and landowners and monarchs
The Second Estate
He criticized the divine right of kings and promoted constitutional goverment
Voltaire
Frances debt was worsened by what foreign conflict?
The American Revolution
Why was the Bastille originally built
This estate was made up of 98% of the population
The First Estate
He emphasized popular sovereignty and individual rights
Rousseau
The finance minister who proposed tax reforms
Jacques Necker
This finance ministers dismissal sparked the Bastille uprising
Jacques Necker
Each estate had how many votes in the Estates General?
One Vote
The concept that goverment should reflect the will of the people
Popular Sovereignty
What led to food shortages and rising food prices in the 1780s
Poor Harvests
What term is used when referring to the wave of uprisings across France after the storming of the Bastille
The Great Fear
This term refers to the old social and political systems in France before the revolution.
The Ancien Regime
These gatherings helped people spread enlightenment ideas among intellectuals
Salons
How much of France’s budget was going in to interest Payments
Over 50%
What Gruesome act was done to the Governor of the Bastille after the seige
His head was put on a spike and paraded around the city,