causes of revolution
What is the 3rd estate
Everyone else- peasants, lawyers, doctors, shopkeepers these people paid the taxes
who was the queen who was beheaded during the french revolution
Marie Antoinette
what was the Bastille
an old prison that they knocked down and made a bridge
what is the 1st estate
clergy (church people)
who was a military genius who ended the revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
what is liberty equality and brotherhood
the modo of the revolution
what was one cause of economic depression
1. crops failure on farms
2. people didn't have jobs
3. massive hunger- famine
what did Jean Jacques Rousseau say
Man is born free born free and everywhere he is in chains
what are two reasons France lost money
the seven year war (French and Indian war) in the colonies
taxes on the poor were excessive
which French Nobelman helped the Americam Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette
Who was the Enlightenment leader who said "if the government doesn't protect your rights over throw them"
John Lock
who was a ruthless tyrant or worker for the revolution
Maximilien Robespierre
what was a tennis court oath
the people promised they would stick together and make a constitution