Estates
Louis and Marie
Events
Miscellaneous
Enlightenment review
100
This group was referred to as the First Estate.
What is the clergy?
100
Upon being crowned, this person said, "Oh, God, guide us and protect us! We are too young to reign!"
Who is Louis XVI?
100
The peasants stormed this building for gunpowder.
What is the Bastille?
100
In addition to social inequality, this was a major problem in France that led to the Revolution.
What is the failing economy?
100
This philosopher believed all people were selfish and savage.
Who is Hobbes?
200
This group was referred to as the Second Estate.
What is the nobility?
200
These are some of Louis XVI's character traits.
What are: indecisive, slow to act, preferred hunting to actually ruling...
200
During this event, peasants stormed Versailles and demanded Louis and Marie come to Paris.
What is the Women's March?
200
This was one privilege of the First and Second Estates.
What is tax exemption? OR What is eligibility to hold high government offices?
200
This philosopher believed in self-government with a leader who protected people's natural rights.
Who is Locke?
300
This percentage of France's population made up the Third Estate.
What is 97%?
300
Marie spent a lot of money on this activity. (3 possible answers.)
What is gambling? What is elaborate hairstyles? What is fashion?
300
During these 2 events, citizens cut off guards' heads and paraded them around on pikes.
What are the storming of the Bastille and the Women's March?
300
France funded this country's Revolution.
What is the United States?
300
This woman fought for women's rights during the Enlightenment and encouraged women to attend school.
Who is Wollstonecraft?
400
This term describes the wealthiest group of the Third Estate, or the middle class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
400
Marie Antoinette had this built at Versailles for her amusement.
What is a fairy tale village?
400
During this event, the Third Estate gathered and vowed to draft a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
400
This man encouraged the Third Estate to form the National Assembly and pass laws in the name of the French people.
Who is Sieyes?
400
This philosopher was a proponent of freedom of speech and an inspiration to the Third Estate.
Who is Voltaire?
500
For this reason, the Third Estate could never get what it wanted at meetings of the Estates-General.
What is: Each estate got only one vote, and the Third Estate was always out-voted by the more privileged classes (even though it was made up of way more people than the First and Second Estates).
500
In order to alleviate France's debt, Louis proposed this idea.
What is taxing the Second Estate?
500
On this date, peasants stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.
What is July 14, 1789?
500
These 3 Enlightenment philosophers inspired the Third Estate.
Who are Rousseau, Locke, and Voltaire?
500
This philosopher believed in separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
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