ESTATES & 1789
Peasants, urban workers, and wealthy commoners all belonged to this estate.
What is the Third Estate?
This royal fortress was stormed by Parisians seeking gunpowder in July 1789.
What is the Bastille?
In June 1789, Third Estate deputies adopted this name and claimed to represent the nation.
What is the National Assembly?
Reformers promoted this execution machine as one method of punishment regardless of social rank.
What is the guillotine?
This 1789 declaration proclaimed liberty, equality in rights, and the nation as the source of sovereignty.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Priests and bishops belonged to this estate.
What is the First Estate?
This October 1789 march forced the royal family to move from Versailles to Paris.
What is the Women's March to Versailles?
This elected assembly abolished the monarchy in September 1792.
What is the National Convention?
This Jacobin leader defended terror as necessary to protect the republic.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that government should protect natural rights and that people could overthrow a government that violated them.
Who is John Locke?
The nobility belonged to this estate.
What is the Second Estate?
Louis XVI's attempted escape in June 1791 ended in this town.
What is Varennes?
This committee coordinated revolutionary government and the war effort during the emergency republic.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Resistance to army recruitment and religious policies helped spark rebellion in this western French region.
What is the Vendee?
Robespierre used this word for putting the public good ahead of personal interests.
What is Virtue?
Louis XVI summoned this assembly of the three estates to address the financial crisis in 1789.
What is the Estates-General?
Parisian insurgents and provincial volunteers stormed this royal palace in August 1792.
What is the Tuileries Palace?
Robespierre belonged to this political club associated with radical republican government.
What is the Jacobin Club?
A priest who refused the oath supporting the new Church system was called this.
What is a refractory priest?
This five-member executive governed under the republican constitution established in 1795.
What is the Directory?
This June 1789 pledge bound deputies to stay together until France had a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This commander of enemy forces threatened Paris if the royal family was harmed.
Who is the Duke of Brunswick?
This republican faction opposed radical Parisian pressure and clashed with the radical Jacobins.
Who are the Girondins?
This law allowed detention of suspected enemies based on evidence such as their speech or associations.
What is the Law of Suspects?
This revolutionary calendar month names the reaction that overthrew Robespierre in July 1794.
What is Thermidor?