Percent of population that made up the third estate?
What is 97%?
100
Became known as the 'national razor.'
What is the guillotine?
100
French citizens storm the prison to steal gunpowder for protection.
What is Storming of the Bastille?
100
Country which France decided to declare war on for fear that the country would put the king back on the thrown.
What is Austria?
200
King of France during the French Revolution
Who is King Louis XVI?
200
Estate that was made up of rich nobles who disliked the ideas of the Enlightenment.
What is the second estate?
200
French term for "middle class."
What is bourgeouisie?
200
Third Estate breaks into a room during the Estates General meeting to write a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
200
Army of France after the King was executed; became largest army in the world.
What is France's Citizen Army?
300
Leader of France during the Reign of Terror, became a tyrant.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
300
The largest group of the third estate.
Who are the peasants?
300
Group of nobles who fled France; wanted a counterrevolution.
Who are emigres?
300
Written by the National Assembly to lay out the rights of the citizen.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man?
300
Created to help protect France from enemies of the government; led by Robespierre.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
400
Jobs of people who made up the first estate of the Old Regime.
What is the clergy? Priests/bishops/etc
400
Meeting of all three estates.
What is the Estates General?
400
Most radical group of the national assembly; extreme left
Who are sans-culottes?
400
Panic from a rumor throughout France when the peasants thought that they were going to be killed by nobles; the peasants decided to raid and destroy the countryside.
What is the Great Fear?
400
First country to be an ally with Austria in the war against the French.
What is Prussia?
500
King of France BEFORE the French Revolution?
Who is King Louis XV?
500
Third Estate breaks from the Estates General to form a new government.
What is the National Assembly?
500
France's government after the National Assembly; gave the government the power to create laws and took away most (not all) of the king's power.
Legislative Assembly
500
Period of time when Robespierre killed thousands of French citizens.
What is Reign of Terror?
500
Leader of France AFTER the French Revolution is over.