French Revolution Review

Monarch of france during the 1780s

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIII

Social class made up of the Nobility.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• The. . . Noble. . . Estate?

Social class consisting of the clergy.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• The CHURCH!

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

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen

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.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Estates General

• Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

July 14, 1789, a French mob stormed a prison. The mob successfully captured the gunpowder they were after.

• Storming of the Bastille

• The Great Fear

• Storming of Pompei

• Sandstorm

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

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

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

• Beheader

• Decapitator

• Guillotine

• Draw and Quarter

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

• Louis XVI

• Maximillien Robespierre

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

• Great Fear

• French Revolution

• Reign of Terror

• Tennis Court Oath