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Name the 3 French social classes and give a brief description of each.

First estate: 1 percent of the population. Made of the clergy. They didn't pay taxes and owned 1/10 of France. The leaders of the Catholic Church Second estate: 2 percent of the population. Consisted of the nobility. Paid taxes but a small amount Third estate: 97 percent of the population. Consisting of the bourgeois (middle class) (doctors, professors, business owners), skilled workers, merchants, peasants, farmers, unskilled workers. Paid majority of taxes.

National Assembly

Group made of the third estate because they wanted change in government

Marat

He was a revolutionary leader and got stabbed in the bathtub

What was the role of women during the French Revolution?

ONe role of women was the march, they supported the revolution in different ways, they had their own club

David

Painter during the revolution

What occurred at the Bastille on July 14, 1789? What is significant about Bastille Day?

Paris mobs stormed and destroyed the prison. July 14 is the French National holiday.

Bourgeoisie

People of the middle class

What happened to Louis and Marie Antoinette in the end?

They got executed by the guillotine.

Nationalism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

Coup d'etat

A sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government

Suffrage

A vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust

Sans-Culotte

An extreme radical republican in France at the time of the French Revolution

Why was King Louis XVI blamed for the problems of France?

Because he spent a lot of money and wouldn't tax the nobility.

Why was the Tennis Court Oath important?

Because it pledged to provide France with a constitution

What occurred during the De - Christianization Period?

Churches were destroyed and closed, a new calendar was created, sundays were eliminated.

What were the cashiers?

Complaints in notebooks

What was the Constitution of 1791?

Created a limited monarchy. Still a king but the legislative assembly would make the laws.

What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?

It was a letter written to demand equal rights for peasant men since they were not seen as equal to rich men.

Name the two political clubs of the French Revolution.

Jacobins and Girodins

What was the Reign of Terror?

July 1793-1794, thousands of French people were sent to the guillotine and named an enemy of France.

List the 3 political causes of the French Revolution.

King Louis XVI ruled France as an absolute monarch, He denied the french people a voice in government

Girodins

Made of men outside paris. Were not so aggressive, wanted to work with King Louis XVI

Legislative Assembly

Makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate, and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending

Jacobins

Most violent of the political clubs. Wanted to get rid of King Louis XVI.

Name the two house legislature that helped the Directory lead France from 1795 to 1799.

The council of elders and the council 500

Maximilien Robespierre

The leader of the revolution

What was the Estates General?

The legislative/ law-making body of France

List 2 economic causes of the French Revolution.

The peasants paid the majority of the taxes to the government, nobility, and church. The French placed high taxes on them and hardly anyone else paid

What event took place in October 1789?

The women's march of versailles

What was the purpose of the Directory? What Constitution created the Directory?

Was the executive branch of the government. National convention created the directory.

Olympe de Gouges

Wrote the declaration of rights of women


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