Vocabulary
Important People
Important Events
Causes
Effects
100
King or queen with total power.
What is Absolute monarchy
100
who believed that all people have natural rights (life, liberty, and property)?
What is John Locke
100
Three estates meet 1st and 2nd Estate do not want to pay taxes 3rd Estate wanted to have votes.
What is the estates meeting
100
The success of the American Revolution influenced the French.
What is The American Revolution
100
The Mountain (Jacobins) takes over the National Convention
What is an effect of the french revolution in 1792
200
Group favoring extreme changes in government policy.
What is radicals
200
proposed to the National Assembly that those condemned to death should be beheaded rather than hung, burned, or drawn and quartered.
What is Dr. Joseph Guillotin
200
Ended the absolute monarchy in France
What is National Assembly
200
The first, second, and third Estate
What is Unfair social divisions
200
Determining that Robespierre was too radical (and fearing for their own lives), members of the National Convention executed Robespierre in July of 1794.
What is End of the Reign of Terror
300
The Revolution in France against the bourbons.
What is French Revolution
300
Kind during the French Revolution, he called the Estates General together. He was the last absolute monarch of France.
What is Louis XVI
300
Peasants attack the prison looking for weapons.
What is Storming of the Bastille
300
France's population was growing and prices and the cost of living was going up
What is Financial Crisis
300
Unified law under Napoleon that made French law more clear and concise.
What is Napoleonic Code
400
A social system in which classes are determined by heredity.
What is Caste System
400
French dictator at the end of the Revolution who will become the Emperor of the French.
What is Napoleon
400
Period in France during the revolution when opposition was killed in the tens of thousands.
What is Reign of Terror
400
Introduced new ideas about how people and the government should work together.
What is The Enlightenment
400
4th gov’t: the Directory
What is Was more conservative ruled for 4 years. Leads to the rise of Napoleon
500
a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people.
What is Gullotine
500
(Radical) leader of the Jacobins and Committee of Public Safety. The primary leader of the French Revolution.
What is Robespierre
500
France’s constitution (plan for government).
What is Declaration of man and of the Citizen
500
First Estate-1% population, owned 15% of land Second Estate 2% population, owned 25% of land Third Estate 97% population, paid taxes on all lands
What is Unequal tax burdens
500
this revolution was an effect of the Latin American
What is Mexican Revolution
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