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This person was the king of France until he was executed by revolutionaries.
Who is King Louis XIV?
This group in French society consisted of commoners, peasants, and the middle class of France and was 98% of the population.
What is the Third Estate?
The Third Estate was angry with the French government because they had to pay so much of these that many of them struggled to buy bread to eat.
What are taxes?
This term refers to the social class of people in French society.
What is Estate?
This man famously crowned himself emperor after seizing power in France at the end of the Revolution.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This estate consisted of the clergy and made up 1% of the population of France before the Revolution.
What is the First Estate?
The National Assembly swore to create one of these in the famous Tennis Court Oath, even though France had never had one before.
What is a constitution?
This term refers to leaders in the church like a priest or pastor.
What is clergy?
This queen of France was disliked by the French common people because of her lavish, extravagant lifestyle.
This group consisted of the nobility in society in France before the Revolution.
What is the Second Estate?
During the French Revolution a group split away from this political meeting of all three classes of society to form their own meeting called the National Assembly.
What is the Estates General?
This term refers to the radical political group in France that called for the death of the French king and took over the Committee of Public Safety.
Who are the Jacobins?
This person was mostly responsible for the Reign of Terror in France and took control of the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
What inhumane practice did Napoleon reintroduce to Haiti after it had been abolished during the French Revolution?
What is slavery?
When the French king brought soldiers into Paris, many people panicked raided this place for weapons.
What is the Bastille?
This political document declared that all men were born free and should be treated as equals.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
This general led formerly enslaved people in battle against the French and Spanish in the Haitian Revolution and even served as the governor until he was captured.
Who is Toussaint L'ouverture?
Before the Revolution in Haiti, Africans were forced into slavery to grow and harvest this valuable crop.
What is sugar cane?
Napoleon reorganized all of the laws in France to form this new legal system at the end of the French Revolution.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This term is French for a violent overthrow of a government.
What is a coup d'etat?