Vocabulary
The action of the taxing authorities levying a tax.
Taxation
a cruel and oppressive ruler
Tyrant
How did Louis XVI die?
He was executed with the guillotine
He overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What device was used during the Reign of Terror for executions?
Guillotine
A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power
Absolute Monarchy
The second class of French society made up of the nobility
Second Estate
This period lasted for about one year during which many people lost their heads in the guillotine
The Reign of Terror
She was Louis XVI's wife
Marie Antoinette
What as King Louis XVI officially charged with that ultimately led to his execution?
Treason
Government practice of spending more than it takes in from taxes
Deficit Spending
The first class of French society made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, they received special privileges and paid no direct taxes
First Estate
What violent protest launched the French Revolution by attacking a symbol of the Kings power?
Storming the Bastille
This person was the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789.
Louis XVI
If all political power is held by one person who has complete control of the nation it is an example of which of the following?
Absolutism
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
Estates General
97% of the population (the rest of France) They consisted of the bourgeoisie, the san-culottes and the peasants; they paid high taxes and had no special privileges
Third Estate
The Third Estate broke away from the Estates-General and formed the National Assembly. They swore an oath to create a constitution. This oath was called...
The Tennis Court Oath
He was the man responsible for the "Reign of Terror"
Robespierre
an uprising in France against the monarchy from 1789 to 1799 which resulted in the establishment of France as a republic.
French Revolution
a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
National Assembly
Radical political club during the French Revolution. They were led by Maximilien Robespierre from 1793 to 1794.
Jacobins
What event is considered the end of the French Revolution?
The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
He built the palace of Versaille
King Louis XIV
This Cause of the French Revolution was shared with the American Revolution
high/unfair taxes