Estates
Estates General and National Assembly
Bastille
Reforms
Vocabulary
100
The First and Second Estate made up what percentage of the population in France?
What is 2 %
100
This estate was usually outvoted at Estates Generals Meetings
What is the Third Estate
100
Name given to the event when rumors began that nobles were rasing armies to kill the peasants, so the peasants began burning noble's homes and documents, forcing many nobles to leave the country
What is the Great Fear
100
Changes that were made to the government administration
What is elected officials ran departments within the country
100
Movement that opposes a revolution and attempts to restore the government previously in power
What is counter-revolution
200
About half of the Third Estates income went to what
What are taxes
200
This was the demand for a new constitution made by the thrid estate
What is the Tennis Court Oath
200
The name of the prison of France
What is the Bastille
200
Who could now apply for positions in the church, government, and army?
Who are all people
200
The middle class in France
What is the Bourgeoisie
300
The clergry made up which estate?
What is the first estate
300
King Louis XVI called a meeting of this group in order to vote on a new tax for the First and Second Estates
What is the Estates General
300
The fate of the Mayor of France and the Commander of the Bastille
What is beheaded
300
What the Constitution of 1791 allowed or stopped
What is limited power of the king, legislative assembly, and male taxpayers become voters
300
The period lasting from 1793-1794 when brutal measures were used to eliminate enemies and critics of the revolutionary republic set up in France
What is the Reign of Terror
400
How much land did the nobility own
What is 25%
400
Each estate got how many votes
What is one
400
The amount of people who were killed in the "Storming of the Bastille"
What is 100
400
This document stated that bishops and priests were elected by popular vote and paid by the government
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
400
Member of the most radical group at the French National Convention
What is a Jacobin
500
The two reasons for poverty with the Third Estate
What are taxes and outdated farming methods
500
The name the third estate decided to call themselves
What is the National Assembly
500
The reason Parisians had assembled outside of the Bastille
What is looking for guns and gunpowder
500
This document stated that the government belonged to the people and it's aim was to perserve liberty and equality
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man
500
Rebellion of the French people beginning in 1789 against class structure and the Old Regime
What is the French Revolution
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