Reign of Terror
This is a time during the French Revolution when many people were executed.
The Reign of Terror
Why were people unhappy during the French Revolution?
The common people paid a lot of taxes
This was the people in power before the French Revolution
The Ancien Regime
This is the first estate
Clergy and Church
This was the group of people that formed from the third estate.
The national Assembly
This was used to kill people during the Reign of Terror
The guillotine
This was a tax paid by the common people (10% of everything they owned paid to the church)
tithe
This marked the beginning of the French Revolution- when the third estate stormed the
Bastille
This estate had the most power
First estate- church clergy
This was what the National Assembly wrote as their new constitution.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen.
During the Reign of terror- this is how many people were killed
17,000
This is how paying tithe made the common people feel
sad and angry
The Bastille was this...
a prison
This was the second estate
The king and queen
Who was part of the national assembly?
Farmers, peasants, common people
17,000 people were killed during this time
The Reign of Terror
The common people were this all the time because they didn't have money for food or bread
hungry
This person was the leader of France during the French Revolution
King Louis the 16th
This was the third estate
The peasants- common people farmers
When was the national assembly formed?
At the beginning of the French Revolution- 1789.
This was used for beheading people who committed treason
the guillotine
The common people made up most of the country but they only got one this...(and it wasn't fair)
vote
This marked the beginning of the French Revolution- when the third estate stormed the
Bastille
Every estate got _____ votes
1
Who was king when the national assembly was formed?
King Louis xvi