The Estates
This estate was approximately 97% of France's population.
What is the Third Estate?
The social and political system in France during the 1770s.
What is the Old Regime?
This event lasted approximately one year and THOUSANDS of people were beheaded.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The former king of France who was blamed for many wrongdoings leading up to revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The Legislative Assembly split into these THREE groups.
What are radicals, moderates, and conservatives?
This estate was approximately 1% of France's population.
What is the First Estate?
This meeting in France had not been called in over 175 years.
What is the Estates-General?
This was a promise by members of the National Assembly to write a new constitution for France.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
I lost my head after earning the nickname, Madame Deficit.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The slogan of the French Revolution was this...
What is liberty, equality, fraternity?
This estate owned approximately 20% of the land in France.
What is the Second Estate?
A mob of National Assembly members hoped to seize gunpowder and arms by attacking this...
What is the Bastille?
Under this French government, France became a constitutional monarchy.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
I was the leader of the Jacobins until everyone turned against me causing me to lose my head.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
After France's government changed their name to the National Convention, France became this...
What is a republic?
This estate educated the French people and helped the destitute.
What is the First Estate?
This swept through France causing peasants to become outlaws.
What was is the Great Fear?
Nobles who fled France during the peasant uprisings who hoped to come back and restore the old system.
What are Émigrés?
I was the editor of a newspaper calling for the death of all king supporters, and was eventually murdered in my own bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette made an attempt to escape to this country.
What is Austria?
These THREE groups made up the Third Estate.
What are the bourgeoisie, workers, and peasants?
This clergyman persuaded the Third Estate to rename themselves the National Assembly.
Who is Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès?
After publishing the Declaration of the Rights of Women, her ideas were rejected and then she was executed.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
I was a talented and passionate speaker who was greatly devoted to Paris's poor.
Who is George Danton?
One of the Four causes of the French Revolution was Enlightenment ideas. The other THREE were these...
What is the Estate system, economic troubles, and weak leadership?