the French revolution class 9

The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.

• Estates General

• Estates System

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

Money, bad harvest, unfair Estate System, Estates General,American Revolution, and Enlightened ideas

• Causes of the French Revolution

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate General

Nobles: Had land and wealth. Did NOT have to pay taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estates General

Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate System

The document that increased the rights of all French citizens

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Declaration of Independence

• Tennis Court Oath

• Constitution

The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution

• The Bastille

• The Tennis Court

• Versailles Palace

• Paris

Third Estate members vowed to never give up until a constitution was written.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Estates General

• Estates System

• Guillotine

The wife of Louis XVI

• Marie Anntoinnette

• Robespierre

• The Bastille

• Lady Gaga

What was the name of direct tax payed by the third estate?

• Tithe

• Taille

• Lavre