Important People
The King of France from 1774-1792
Who was Louis XIV?
The government in France before any revolution occurred
The intellectual movement focusing on liberty and the rights of the people
The traditional starting point of the revolution, which occurred on July 14, 1789
What is the storming of the Bastille
The system where people are divided into three categories based on their wealth or occupation
What is the estate system?
The Queen of France at the time of the Revolution
The government in place where Louis is still king but gives up some power to the National Assembly
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
A major economic issue where the nobility and clergy owned the majority of land and the common people owned very little.
What is high economic inequality?
An important event which forced the king and his family to move from Versailles to Paris
What is the women's march?
The estate made up of the clergy - about 1% of the population
What is the first estate?
Became Emperor of France after the Revolution
Who was Napoléon Bonaparte?
The form of government where even more power is placed in the hands of the people and taken from the king.
What is a limited constitutional monarchy?
The revolution financed by the French government causing debt for the crown
The document which was written declaring the rights that the french people wanted to achieve through their revolution
What is the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen?
The estate made up of the majority of the population - 98% of the population of France
What is the third estate?
Member of the committee of public safety and responsible for the majority of the reign of terror
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
The government formed after the king is executed
An effect of the debt of the government and crop failure
What is a food shortage?
The period in the revolution when thousands of "enemies of the revolution" were executed
What is the reign of terror?
The estate made up of the nobility - about 1% of the population
Head of the Committee of public safety who was later executed by Robespierre
Who was Danton?
The government put in place at the end of the revolution
What is the directory?
The enlightenment thinker who influenced Thomas Jefferson and the French people
Who is John Locke?
The event which caused the end of the monarchy - occurred in 1785
What is the execution of Louis XVI?
The assembly of the three estates which resembles a parliament
What is the Estates General?