THE CLERGY
Members of the clergy included priests, bishops, and others in what major institution?
What is The Catholic Church
Before the Revolution, nobles enjoyed privileges such as hunting and holding what kind of positions?
What is high government positions
What do we call middle-class professionals like merchants, lawyers, and doctors?
What is the bourgeoisie
Which educated woman wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?
Who is Olymbe de Gouges
About how many people made up the First Estate (clergy)?
What is 130,000
Before the Revolution, how much did members of the Clergy pay in taxes?
What is almost no taxes
True or false: Nobles paid many taxes before the Revolution.
What is False - They paid few taxes
What major frustration did the bourgeoisie have before the Revolution?
What is they were educated and wealthy but had no political power
Working-class women led riots demanding what essential thing?
What is affordable food/bread
The nobility included between _________ and _________ people
what is 120,000 and 350,000
What did clergy collect from peasants before the Revolution?
What is Tithes
What happened to the nobility’s privileges and titles during the Revolution?
What is they lost them
Urban workers struggled with unemployment and high prices for what essential food?
What is bread
What famous 1789 march was led mainly by women?
What is the Women’s March on Versailles
How many people were part of the Third Estate (everyone else)?
what is 27 million
During the Revolution, clergymen were forced to take an oath of loyalty to what?
What is the new Government
Many nobles fled France, hoping who would restore their power?
What are Foreign Kings
What group of radical working-class people influenced politics with protests?
Who are the urban workers
Women created political clubs, including the Society of Revolutionary __________ Women
What is republican
The bourgeoisie became leaders in what after the Revolution began?
What is the new government
Why did daily life become dangerous for some clergy during the Revolution?
What is they stayed loyal to the pope
Nobles spent much of the Revolution doing what due to fear of persecution?
What is Hiding
What system ended during the Revolution, freeing peasants from paying dues to nobles?
What are feudal dues
True or false: Women were eventually banned from political life during the Revolution
What is true
War, food shortages, and violence made life very __________ for peasants
What is unstable