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This cause of the French Revolution was shared with a cause of the American Revolution (and has to do with a money.
What is high/unfair taxes? What is a heavy burden of taxes?
100
This was the class system of France.
What is the "Estate" system?
100
Louis XVI called this parliament to meet after 175 years with no meeting!
What is the Estates-General? (a parliament, or governing body similar to our Congress)
100
The voting under Medieval Rules worked like this: 1st Estate had 300 delegates and 1 vote. 2nd Estate had 300 delegates and 1 vote. 3rd Estate had 600 delegates and 1 vote. So this group was always disadvantaged.
Who is the 3rd Estate?
100
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What are the inequalities of the Three Estates?
200
This cause of the Revolution was thanks to irresponsible spending by King Louis XVI on things such as wars and his Royal Court
What is debt/bankruptcy?
200
The 2nd Estate who owned 20% of the land and made up just 2% of the population was made up of this group.
Who are the nobility? *the nobility are those with titles and "noble" blood - one is born into nobility and it often comes with a title/rank (Duke, Marquis, Lord, Countess, Baroness, etc)
200
This group, made up of Delegates from the 3rd Estate, would pass laws and reforms in the name of the French people.
What is the National Assembly?
200
Queen Marie-Antoinette spent added to the government's deficit with her spending so much that she earned this nickname.
Who is "Mme Deficit?"
200
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What is The Woman's March on Versailles?
300
Ideas like natural rights and limitations on government from this era surely contributed to the idea of revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
These Estates had privileges, including access to high offices and exemptions from paying taxes.
What are the 1st and 2nd Estates?
300
This became known as the Great Fear.
What is the wave of senseless panic when the peasants burned and looted nobles' manors?
300
The Women's March on Versailles was the demand for this common food staple. The women marched from Paris to Versailles (home of the government)
What is bread?
300
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What is the Storming of the Bastille?
400
By participating in this overseas war, King Louis XVI spend an exorbitant amount of money, and thus went into debt.
What is the American Revolution?
400
Theses bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans were sometimes even wealthier than the nobility.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
400
The King locked the 3rd Estate delegates out of their meeting room, so they met at the tennis court and proclaimed to do this in the famous Tennis Court Oath.
What is creating a new constitution?
400
Before 1789, this social and political system of France remained in place.
What is the Old Regime?
400
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What is the Tennis Court Oath?
500
King Louis XVI's solution to losing all his money was this.
What is taxing the nobility?
500
These two groups (NOT Estates) felt the burdens of income and tax inequality the most.
Who are the peasants (farmers) and urban workers?
500
The peasants and other members of the 3rd Estate stormed the Bastille in search of these.
What are guns and ammunition? (gunpowder and arms)
500
This pamphlet by Thomas Payne about freedom and rights spurred both the American and French Revolutions.
What is "Common Sense?"
500
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What is the Palace of Versailles?