Vocabulary
Three Estates
What Comes Next?
Historical Actors
Name That Event
100
Unjust use of power

What is Tyranny?

100

This Estate made up 97% of the population and paid all of the taxes.

What is the Third Estate?

100

How did France try to reunify the country after the Estates were removed?

What is war with other countries?

100

Five person council set up to run the government (very weak)

Who is the Directory?

100

Riots that were fueled due to a lack of food within the general population.

What are the bread riots?

200
Nobles

What is the aristocracy?

200

This Estate made up 2% of the population and paid no taxes.

What is the Second Estate?

200

This group of radicals took over the government.

What is the Mountain? 

200

Powerful army general who takes power in a coup

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

200

Period of time where every French citizen lived in fear of the government.

What is the Reign of Terror?

300

People who favor quick and far-reaching changes

What are radicals?

300

These individuals make up the Third Estate.

Who are the bourgeoisie (middle class) and the peasantry?

300

Choppity chop...

What is the guillotine?

300

This individual was beheaded in 1793

Who is King Louis XVI?

300

France helped this country win it's war against Britain.

What is the American Revolutionary War?

400

A swift seizure of government, or a military overthrow of the government

What is a Coup d'etat?

400

The amount of votes each Estate received when voting in the Estates General

What is 1?

400

This prison was stormed by the Third Estate to take gunpowder.

What is the Bastille?

400

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety. Reign of Terror ends when this person is beheaded.

Who is Maximilien Robespierre?

400

The peasantry agree to take an Oath to form a new Constitution.

What is the Tennis Court Oath?

500

A period of time when anyone suspected of being disloyal to the revolution or favored the return of the king was killed.

What is the Reign of Terror?

500

New name for the government established out of the Third Estate.

What is the National Assembly?

500
This many people were killed during the reign of terror

What is 40,000?

500
Queen of France

Who is Marie Antoinette?

500

Government gets its power from the people, not the King.

What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen (DoRoMaC)?