People
What country was Marie Antoinette from?
Austria
Members of the Third Estate made a promise to meet until they formed a new constitution after they were locked out of the Estates General meeting
Tennis Court Oath
Paid almost all the taxes
Third Estate
Argued that the best form of government was one where powers were separated
Montesquieu
New way execute criminals that was "more humane"
Guillotine
Name of the King of France AFTER they took his royal title away
Louis Capet
King Louis called for the first meeting of the ______ ________ in 175 years to vote on raising taxes
Estates General
Members of the church (bishops, priests, archbishops)
First Estate
Championed freedom of speech and religious freedom
Voltaire
Stood to the right, wanted to keep the monarchy and the way that France had been for hundreds of years
Conservative
Name of person who said "the king must die, so the revolution could live"
Maximilien Robespierre
The people of France ______ ___ _______ to arm themselves for a revolution
Stormed the Bastille
Nobility and aristocrats (dukes, duchess, knights, princes, princesses)
Second Estate
Wrote the Declaration of Rights of Woman in response to the Declaration of Rights of Man
Olympe de Gouges
Stood to the left, wanted to get rid of the monarchy and change the way that France had been run
Liberal
Name of person who wrote the newspaper The Friend of the People
Jean Paul-Marat
Members of the Third Estate declared themselves a _______ ________ as they represented 97% of the population in France
National Assembly
Name of the middle class in the Third Estate (lawyers, bankers, merchants)
Bourgeoisie
Argued that if people felt as though the government was no longer serving them, they had a right to replace it
John Locke
Inspired by the English Bill of Rights and the American Declaration of Independence/Constitution
Declaration of Rights of Man
Person in King Louis government who was sympathetic to the Third Estate and got fired, igniting the Storming of the Bastille
Jacques Necker
Crowds upset over bread prices marched to the king's palace successfully returning him to Paris
Women March on Versailles
During this time 40,000+ died, 85% of those who died were peasants
Reign of Terror
Argued that women were not inherently lesser than men but rather were given less educational opportunities
Mary Wollstonecraft
Name of the old regime in France
Ancien Regime