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The Estates
Revolutionary Leaders and Institutions
The Bastille
100
The Estate the clergy belonged to.
What is the First Estate?
100
This French Leader Locked the National Assembly out of their normal meeting place.
Who is King Louis XVI or Louis XVI?
100
The role or function of the Bastille.
What is a prison?
200
The Estate for the Nobles.
What is the Second Estate?
200
The temporary new meeting place for the National Assembly.
What is the Tennis Court or Indoor Tennis Court?
200
What the French people wanted to get from the Bastille.
What is gunpowder and arms or weapons?
300
This Estate paid 50% of French taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
300
The commitment or promise by the National Assembly to meet until France has a written constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
300
July 14.
What is Bastille Day?
400
Louis XVI called for a meeting of this group for the first time in 175 years.
What is the Estates General?
400
She was nicknamed "Madame Deficit."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
400
America's version of Bastille Day.
What is July 4? Or What is the Fourth of July?
500
The Third Estate left the Estates General to begin this new representative body.
What is the National Assembly?
500
The main reason Louis XVI called the Estates General.
What is money? Or What is to ask for money?
500
Peasant uprisings throughout France.
What is the Great Fear?