French Revolution Vocab

One cause of the French Revolution was the emergence of a new middle class of merchants and professionals called the 

• bourgeoisie
• aristocracy
• sans culottes
• denoument

One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution

• jacobins
• estates 
• National Assembly
• Estates-General

One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution

• jacobins
• estates 
• National Assembly
• Estates-General

Coup d' Etat

• the sudden seizure of political power in a nation
• a formal agreement between Napoleon and the Pope
•  machines for beheading people
• an accomplishment of the National Assembly

Robespierre's reign as dictator

• Continental System
• Reign of Terror
• Concordat
• Waterloo

The belief that people should be loyal to their nation

• continental system
• concordat
• nationalism
• Napoleonic Code

When locked out of the government meeting room, it was pledged by the Third Estate to stay until a new constitution was written; some members of the nobles and clergy supported them, causing the king to station his mercenary Swiss guards around Versailles

• Sans-Culottes
• Tennis Court Oath
• George Danton
• The Directory

Moderate but ineffective government plan that was the government after the Reign of Terror; had two-house legislature and a five man executive branch

• The Great Fear
• Third Estate
• The Directory
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Written in August 1789; influenced by the American Declaration of Independence; stated "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"; guaranteed citizens equal justice, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion

• The Directory
• The Great Fear
• Third Estate
• The Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen

Radical political organization that took over French government in September 1792, after war with Austria and Prussia went badly

• Jacobins
• Guillotine
• Bread
• Emigres