French Revolution Review

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Monarch of France during the 1780s

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Louis XVI

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Social class made up of the Nobility.

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2nd Estate

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Social class consisting of the clergy.

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1st Estate

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An assembly of representatives from all three estates that met for the first time in 175 years when Louis XVI called them together.

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Estates General

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A pledge made by members of France's National Assembly in 1789 in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drafted a new Constitution.

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Tennis Court Oath

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What significant event occurred on July 14, 1789, involving a French mob storming a prison to capture gunpowder?

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Storming of the Bastille

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Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France's National Assembly.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen

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A machine for beheading people used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.

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Guillotine

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Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, he and his followers tried to wipe out all traces of France's past monarchies.

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Maximillien Robespierre

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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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Reign of Terror