Vocabulary
What is Tyranny?
This Estate made up 97% of the population and paid all of the taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
How did France try to reunify the country after the Estates were removed?
What is war with other countries?
Five person council set up to run the government (very weak)
Who is the Directory?
Riots that were fueled due to a lack of food within the general population.
What are the bread riots?
What is the aristocracy?
This Estate made up 2% of the population and paid no taxes.
What is the Second Estate?
This group of radicals took over the government.
What is the Mountain?
Powerful army general who takes power in a coup
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Period of time where every French citizen lived in fear of the government.
What is the Reign of Terror?
People who favor quick and far-reaching changes
What are radicals?
These individuals make up the Third Estate.
Who are the bourgeoisie (middle class) and the peasantry?
Choppity chop...
What is the guillotine?
This individual was beheaded in 1793
Who is King Louis XVI?
France helped this country win it's war against Britain.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
A swift seizure of government, or a military overthrow of the government
What is a Coup d'etat?
The amount of votes each Estate received when voting in the Estates General
What is 1?
This prison was stormed by the Third Estate to take gunpowder.
What is the Bastille?
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety. Reign of Terror ends when this person is beheaded.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The peasantry agree to take an Oath to form a new Constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A period of time when anyone suspected of being disloyal to the revolution or favored the return of the king was killed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
New name for the government established out of the Third Estate.
What is the National Assembly?
What is 40,000?
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Government gets its power from the people, not the King.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DoRoMaC)?