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| Old Regime or Three Estates |
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| Social and political system of France and social classes. |
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| Roman Catholic Church, provided education and relief services. Paid almost no taxes. |
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| Rich nobles, paid almost no taxes |
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| Middle class, workers, peasants. Paid most of the taxes. |
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| King of France who spent lots of money. |
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| Queen of France who was unpopular because she spent lots of money. |
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| The assembly of representatives from all three estates in France |
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| New French Congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789 to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
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| Pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. |
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| On July 17, 1789 a mob stormed the Bastille, a French prison, looking for gunpowder and arms. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen |
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| Document that guaranteed citizens equal justice, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. |
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| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity |
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| Slogan of the French revolutionary leaders. |
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| A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. |
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| Governed France virtually as a dictator. |
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| The period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
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| Became ruler of France, restoring order to the country. |
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| A sudden seizure of political power in a nation. |
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| A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
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| Napoleon is defeated by the British and the Prussians |
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| Austrian Prince in the Congress of Vienna. Wanted to prevent future French aggression, restore balance of power, restore Europe’s royal families. |
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| A series of meetings in 1814-1815, during which the European leaders sought to establish long-lasting peace and security after the defeat of Napoleon. |
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| A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century devised by Prince Klemens von Matternich to prevent the outbreaks of revolutions. |
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| The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation—that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history—rather than to a king or empire. |
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