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| Made up of The Clergy, highest in power besides the king. Scorned Enlightenment ideas |
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| Made up of wealthy Nobles. Held the highest offices in government. Disagreed about Enlightenment Ideas |
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| Included bourgeoisie, urban lower class, and peasant farmers. Had no power in government and resented the upper estates. Embraced Enlightenment ideas |
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| "Notebooks" List of grievances written by each estate as part of the electoral process in spring of 1789. Intended to inform of local views and authorize reform. Third estate were written at the parish level, then consolidated by order, providing a source for those interested in public opinion. |
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| A wave of panic in France. Peasants rebelled and broke into nobel's residences and destroyed important documents or burned the houses down |
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| King from a long line that inherited and caused great debt. Indecisive, and inattentive about governmental matters |
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| Finance manager of Louis XVI during the Revolution |
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| Pronounced Bore Zwah Zee, part of the third estate. A class of wealthier frenchmen. Appointed into government to provide support to the nobles and counterbalance other nobles, got more of the third estate on the side of the king. |
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| Wife of Louis XVI, interfered in governmental matters. Austrian (Enemies of France) and disliked by the French people |
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| When government spends more money then it takes in |
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Radicals and liberals are the highest
Moderates are between both ends
Conservatives and reactionals are on the low end |
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| A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims. |
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| Favor progress or reform, advocate rights, maximum individual freedom |
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| An individual, group or idea in favour of limited or gradual change. |
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| A medieval fortress-prison in eastern Paris. Used for the subjects/victims of rebellion, held seven prisoners in 1789. Symbol of royal power. Seized by the Paris crowd on 14 July 1789; end of the absolute monarchy. Bastille Day |
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| Created by the new constitution, limited constitutional monarchy, stripped king of authority. Had power to create laws and decide on war |
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| An assembly of representatives from all 3 estates. |
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| French general who helped the colonists, a member of the Estates-general, helped write Declaration of rights of Man. Leader of the National Guard |
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| Created a limited constitutional monarchy, stripped king of authority and created Legislative Assembly |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Women |
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| Created by Olympe de Gouges to apply the Rights of Men to women, idea was rejected and she was executed |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man |
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Stated men are born free and equal and included rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" |
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| The flag of France having three colors, new French flag |
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| Nobles, clergy, and others who had fled France and its revolutionary forces |
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| Delegates of the Third Estate declared themselves this and began writing a constitution, opressed by Louis XVI |
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| National Assembly agrees to continue meeting until a new constitution is created. |
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| Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite |
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| The motto for the Declaration of men, meaning "Liberty, equality, and fraternity" |
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| Government of Paris from 1789-1795, created after the storming of Bastille, refused orders from central French government |
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| Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
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| Law that moved the clergy to lower power and put them beneath the new French government |
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| Women's March on Versailles |
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| October 1789, women marched on Versailles over the rising price of bread. Demanded National Assembly to provide bread, had the king and queen move back to Paris |
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| How did the meeting of the Estates General lead to the formation of the National Assembly? |
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| The 3rd estate was not represented properly and was constantly outvoted by the selfish higher estates, angered the peasants causing a revolt |
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| How did foreign affairs affect the French Revolution? |
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| American Revolution gave the idea to the French, along with increasing their debt through requests for wartime aid, angering peasants and pushing a revolt |
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| What roles did different classes play in the French Revolution? |
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| 1st and 2nd did not do much, but the 3rd estate drove the Revolution by itself |
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