A person not given to political extremism; a
middle-of-the road type.
What is moderate?
100
Meeting of the three estates at Versailles Pallace
What is Estates General?
100
The nobility
What is the second estate?
100
A large country home of a noble in France
What is chateau?
100
Second government of the
French Revolution
What is Legislative Assembly?
200
The Second Estate in France composed
wealthy and privileged landowners.
What is nobility?
200
In pre-revolutionary France, the first estate
was made up of members of the Catholic clergy.
What is First Estate?
200
The ordinary people of France. The only French taxpayers before the revolution.
What is the third estate?
200
A supporter of the monarchy
What is royalist?
200
Titles that signify noble rank and can be
passed on in aristocratic families. For example, Duke and
Earl are hereditary titles
What is hereditary titles?
300
A political extremist.
What is radical?
300
The American branch of the seven years' war (1756-1763)
What is French and Indian War?
300
Frances possessions in North America that were lost after the Seven Years' War
What is New France?
300
A name given to the French
Revolutionaries. It means "without short trousers that fasten
at the knee." Culottes were worn by wealthy men,
whereas long pants were common among the poor revolutionaries.
What is sans-culottes?
300
A time of bad economic times
and high unemployment.
What is economic depression?
400
A person who holds extreme views.
What is extremist?
400
A panic that seized France after the
National Assembly took power, based on the false notion that nobles were hoarding large quantities of food.
What is great fear, the?
400
First go government the French Revolution formed by the third estate in may of 1789
What is National Asembly?
400
Queen of France during the French
Revolution, a woman of very wasteful habits, known for
spending vast sums of money
What is Marie Antoinette?
400
The belief that only certain families
could give rise to kings and queens because God had
decided that it should be that way
What is Divine Right of Kings?
500
complaints
What is grievances?
500
King of France during the French Revolution
What is King Louis XVl?
500
A nation governed by the elected representatives
of the people, not by a monarch.
What is republic?
500
France's North American territory
west of the Mississippi River that was lost in 1763 and
then temporarily regained under Napoleon.
What is Louisiana Territory?
500
First constitution of the French Revolution.
What is Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?