Problèmes
A weak French king who failed to fix the debt.
Louis XVI
Made up originally of the 2nd & 3rd Estates
National (Constituent) Assembly
The type of document that sets up a country's government.
Constitution
The most prominent political club in the Reign of Terror.
Jacobins
The French Republican calendar month named for the fall of Robespierre
Thermidor
The focus of rising prices & inflation
Bread
French Independence Day
Bastille Day / July 14th, 1789
Bonds used to ease the debt.
Assignats
The working class radicals named for their lack of britches.
Sans-Culottes
The constitution that made a bicameral legislature & a 5-person directory
Constitution of Year III
Institutions that refused to lend money to the state.
Banks / Church
Written complaints brought to Versailles
Cahiers de Doléances / List of Grievances
Term for the new divisions of French land
Départements / Departments
He represented the "Republic of Virtue"
Maximilien de Robespierre
The future emperor who helped suppress an uprising in 1795
The financial minister whose misleading report hid the scale of France's debt.
Jacques Necker
Where they swore an oath to write the constitution after being kicked out.
Tennis Court
A way to divide citizens by their taxpaying & voting status
Active & Passive Citizens
The first set of mass killings in the French Revolution
September Massacres
Kind of a proto-Communist
François-Noël Gracchus Babeuf
The forced labor, similar to the robot in Central Europe.
Corvée
These countries offered support if the royal family were harmed
Austria & Prussia
The law that put Church land and people under the government's power.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
It allowed courts to convict with little to no evidence
The Law of 22 Prairial
The White Terror groups of young aristocrats
Bands of Jesus