The Old Regime
The social system that divided France into three groups
Estates System (if you said the word "Estates," that's enough)
This group was exempt from many taxes.
What is the First and Second Estates?
What are salons?
This meeting was called to fix France’s financial crisis.
What is the Estates-General?
This document declared liberty and equality as core values. (French version of the Declaration of Independence)
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This group paid most of the taxes in France.
What is the Third Estate?
France’s financial crisis was made worse by helping this country gain independence.
What is the United States?
The Enlightenment idea that power should be divided among branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
The Third Estate renamed itself this group.
What is the National Assembly?
The king was trying to go here to flee France that destroyed public trust.
Austria (or Varennes)
The group made up of nobles who owned land and had privileges.
What is the Second Estate?
98% of French population.
Who was the 3rd Estate?
This Christian Enlightenment thinker argued that rulers get power from the people, and believed in inalienable rights.
Who is John Locke?
This event symbolized the people standing up to royal power. The 3rd Estate were looking for guns and to free prisoners.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The new form of government created before the monarchy fell completely.
What is a constitutional monarchy? or limited monarchy?
The king who ruled France at the start of the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
This luxury destination (like a resort) built for the queen angered real peasants who were struggling to survive.
What is the Peasant Village?
The belief that government has a responsibility to people, and people have a responsibility to the government. (Civics things, but important here.)
What is the social contract? Or what is consent of the governed?
The promise where the Third Estate promised not to disband until a constitution was written.
The Tennis Court Oath
The time period from when Robespierre got power to the time when he died.
What is the Reign of Terror?
A system where the king holds absolute power, claiming it comes from God.
What is absolute monarchy? or Divine Right of Kings?
This is the reason why France was broke.
What is Louis 16th spending too much on his wife, Marie Antoinette.
Both were because people felt taxes were no longer fair.
Why did the 3rd Estate not have as much of a say as the 1st and 2nd Estates?
Because they only got 1 vote (even though they were 98% of the population)
Who were far left radicals that wanted to end the monarchy and set up a republic?