French Revolution Vocabulary

What was the "the political and

social system that existed in France before the

French Revolution"?

• Old Regime

• Estates General

• Old Order

• National Assembly

What was "one of the three

social classes in France before the French

Revolution"?

• estates

• parcels

• tailles

• leagues

What was "an assembly of representatives from all

three of the estates, or social classes, in France"?

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• The Directory

What was "a French congress with the power to create laws

and approve declarations of war, established by

the Constitution of 1791"?

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• The Directory

What was "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"?

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• The Directory

What was "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

• Constitutional Oath

• Great Fear

• Constitutional Court Oath

What was "a wave of senseless panic that

spread through the French countryside after

the storming of the Bastille in 1789"?

• Great Fear

• Reign of Terror

• Panic of 1789

• September Massacres

What was "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

• Reign of Terror

• Reign of Horror

• September Massacres

What was "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-culottes

• emigres

• Jacobins

• revolutionairres

What was "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"?

• sans-culottes

• emigres

• Jacobins

• immigres