French Revolution Check up 2019

. a civil war fought from 1783 to 1789; the common people fought back against the King and Queen and the oppressive government for individual rights and freedoms

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• French Revolution

• Russian Revolution

a group of 12 men who took control after the execution of King Louis XIV(16^th); Jacobin radicals supported drastic changes to society and encouraged the Terror to eliminate the 1^st and 2^nd estates

• Committee of Public Safety

• The Great Tribunal

• The Consuls

• National Assembly

to overthrow a government by force

• The Purge

• Guillotine

• The Great Fear

• Coup d'etat

a social class that was made up of the clergy/church leaders; about 1% of the population

• Plebeians

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

social class made up of bourgeois, towns workers, and peasant farmers; made up of about 98% of the population

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Bourgeois

Queen of France who was Austrian and overspent excessively; she is accused of saying “Let them eat cake!” and is blamed for many of the financial problems of France

• Marie Antoinette

• Queen Elizabeth II

• Cleopatra

• Maximilian Robespierre

a period in French history in which over 16,000 citizens accused of being against the revolution were killed at the guillotine; the first was Marie Antoinette; led by Maximilian Robespierre; lasted one year

• The Great Fear

• Reign of Terror

• The Great Purge

• Spanish Inquisiton

a protest by the Third Estate that took place on the tennis courts of Versailles; they protested the limited vote they had so they left and formed the National Assembly and created their own Constitution

• Tennis Court Oath

• The Great Fear

• Reign of Terror

• Storming of the Bastille

wealthy middle class that were not nobility; part of the Third Estate; doctors, lawyers; often have more money than Nobility

• Peasants

• Farmers

• Townsworkers

• Bourgeois

a social class that was made up of the nobility; about 1% of the population

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• The King