The French Revolution Review

The social class which included peasants, artisans, and middle class.

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

The social class which included nobles and landowners

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

The social class which included the Roman Catholic clergy

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

The middle class of doctors, lawyers, merchants, and business managers who also made up the Third Estate

• Nobles

• Land Owners

• Supérieure

• Bourgeoisie

The society and institutions of France before 1789 in which everyone was split into three social classes/estates

• Old Regime

• Caste System

• Social System

• old regime

A type of government in which a king has total and complete rule

• Democracy

• Republic

• Absolute Monarchy

• Monarchy

When a government spends more money than it takes in

• Deficit Spending

• Debt Spending

• Over Spending

• Under Spending

A rallying point speech made by the National Assembly in which they swore never to separate until they established a fair constitution.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Tennis Court Oath

• Basketball Oath

• National Assembly

A prison in Paris that became the starting point of the French Revolution

• Versailles

• The Estates General Building

• The Prison of France

• The Bastille

This was a meeting called by King Louis XVI in which an equal number of representatives from each estate gathered to discuss solutions to major problems

• The Estates General

• The Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• National Assembly