Long term causes
The socio-political system of 18th century France which was mainly divided into three estates or classes.
What is the Ancien Regime (or Old Regime) ?
When the government spends more money than it takes in from the nation's taxes.
What is deficit spending?
The king of France at the beginning of the revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI (sixteenth) ?
The event that officially started of the revolution involving a search for weapons in a prison.
What is the Storming of the Bastille ?
This estate came up with the idea that voting should be done by the number of population instead of by estate.
What is the Third Estate?
Centuries of the monarchs taking advantage of having all the power.
The meeting called on by King Louis XVI to discuss the problems of France. This meeting had not been held in 175 years.
What is the Estates-General ?
Radical leader against the monarchy and behind the Reign of Terror, later executed.
Who is Robespierre?
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What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The form of execution (object) for both the monarchs in the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Owned 10% of the land, collect tithes, not pay taxes, responsible for registering births, marriages and deaths etc.
What are privileges of the First Estate?
The worst famine in French history where peasant turned to rioting, looting and violence during the summer that the French Revolution broke out.
What is the Great Fear?
Nobles who fled the country with the objective to plot against the Revolutionary governement.
Who are emigrés?
Five member committee that governed France in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. Also abolished slavery in al French conolies.
What/Who is the Directory?
The government the Parisians organized after the storming of the Bastille.
what is the Commune ?
Two other revolutions that influenced the French to rebel against the absolute monarchs.
What is England and America ?
The list of complaints or grievances from the estates that they wanted to the king to make changes.
Wrote the Declaration on the Rights of Woman and later executed for sedition.
Who is Olympe de Gouge?
A period during the French Revolution after the First Republic when a series of massacres and many public executions took place in response to the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Where the monarchs relocated to in Paris after being forced out of the Versailles.
What is the Tuileries Palace?
Important philosophers of the Enlightenment who played a role in the ideas leading up to the Revolution. (name 3)
Who are Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Diderot ?
These groups refused to be taxed by the monarchy in order to help out in France's economic troubles.
Who are the nobles and the clergy?
Who are the privileged classes?
Who are the first and second estate?
The governing body in the French Revolution which officially abolished the monarchy.
What is the National Convention?
Guaranteed rights under the Declaration on the Rights of Man. (name 3)
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, right to fiar trial, right to property, right of the people to create laws?
The national motto of the French with origins in the French Revolution.
What is Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite? (liberty, equality, brotherhood)