Unit 5 Vocab Quiz review

An overthrow and replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed

• Revolution

• Coup d'etat

• Bastille

• Reign of Terror

the French word for a forcible overthrow of a government

• Revolution

• Bastille

• Coup d'etat

• Reign of Terror

fortress in Paris used as a prison, French Revolution began when Parisians stormed it in 1789

• Revolution

• Bastille

• Coup d'etat

• Reign of Terror

the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed

• Three Estates & Estates General

• Bastille

• Guillotine

• Reign of Terror

device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands of people by beheading

• Three Estates & Estates General

• Taxation

• Social Hierarchy

• Guillotine

The social hierarchy in France before the revolution. Their meeting leading to the Revolution was called the Estates General.

• Three Estates & Estates General

• Reign of Terror

• Guillotine

• Social Hierarchy

Money raised from the people by the government to provide services for the common good of the community/country.

• Citizen

• Boycott

• Taxation

• Social Hierarchy

The division of society by rank or class (levels can be by job, amount of wealth, etc.)

• Social Hierarchy

• Citizen

• Debt

• Boycott

A person with certain rights and responsibilities in their country/community.

• Debt

• Revolution

• Democracy

• Citizen

Something, typically money, that is owed or due to the source it was borrowed from.

• Boycott

• Debt

• Guillotine

• Democracy