The Old Regime
In the Old Regime, these types of people did not have to pay any taxes.
What are the privileged people?
This person wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense in support of both the American and French Revolutions.
Who was Thomas Paine?
These are the people that made up the First Estate.
Who are the clergy?
This was the political party that dominated French politics during the Reign of Terror.
What were the Jacobins?
This assembly abolished the monarchy.
What was the convention?
This is the number of estates in the Old Regime.
What is 3?
This person influenced the ideas of natural freedoms for both the American and French constitutions.
Who is John Locke?
These are the people that made up the Second Estate.
Who are the nobles?
This was the number of people put to the guillotine during this time period.
What is 15,000 people?
This is what both the King and Queen of France were put on trial for.
What is treason?
This is the type of monarchy in the Old Regime.
What is an absolute monarch?
This person influenced the idea of checks and balances as an important piece of governments.
Who was Montesquieu?
This is approximately the number of people in the third estate.
What is 25,000,000 people?
This was a group that tried and executed many people in France for treason.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This is the reason that King Louis’ daughter could not take succeed the throne.
What is Salic law?
These were the type of people that bore the most burden of taxation in the Old Regime.
What are the peasants?
This person was the main advocate for religious freedom during the Age of Enlightenment.
Who was Voltaire?
This was the list of grievances that the third estate brought to the Estates-General.
What are cahiers?
This political party tried to end the Reign of Terror initiated by the Jacobin political party.
This is what happened to the daughters of King Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette after they were exectued.
What is sent to Vienna?
In the Old Regime, these types of people had to pay taxes.
What are the unprivileged people?
This idea described the purpose of a government, and where the government got its power from. It was written by Jean-Jacque Rousseau.
What is the Social Contract?
This was the meeting of all three estates that King Louis called.
What is the Estates-General?
This was the first person in charge of the Committee of Public Safety.
Who was Georges Danton?
This is the reason that the son of King Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette was killed instead of facing the same punishment as his sister.
What is Louis-Charles being next in line for the throne?
This is how the monarch legitimized his right to rule during the Old Regime.
What is divine right to rule?
This person created the idea of the social contract for how a government is supposed to function.
Who was Rousseau?
This was the percentage of the land in France the first and second estate owned.
What is 40%?
This person took over for Georges Danton in the Committee of Public Safety, and eventually was also executed by the guillotine.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This is the country the royal family tried to escape to while the revolution was going on.
What is Austria?