Ch. 7- The French Revolution

wife of Louis XVI, interfered in the government and offered Louis poor advice, she was unpopular from the moment she set foot in France, spent money on gowns, jewels, gambling, and gifts.

• Marie Antoinette

• Jean Baptiste

• Klemens Von Metternich

• Queen Elizabeth

an assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.

• Clergy

• Tennis Court Oath

• Estates-General

• National Assembly

a 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.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Congress of Vienna

• Estates General

• National Assembly

a 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.

• Tennis Court Oath

• National Assembly

• Congress of Vienna

• Estates- General

a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789.

• Emigre

• Great Fear

• Black Death

• Bubonic Plague

a French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the Constitution of 1791.

• Legislative Assembly

• National Assembly

• Estates-General

• Great Fear

people who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution.

• Guillotine

• Jacobin

• Sans-Culotte

• Emigre

in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages.

• Sans-Culotte

• Emigre

• Jacobin

• Guillotine

members of a radical political organization involved in the governmental changes in September in 1792.

• Jacobin

• Guillotine

• Sans-Culotte

• Emigre

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

• Sans-Culotte

• Jacobin

• Head snapper

• Guillotine