French Revolution (e.s)

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• 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

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

Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.

• King Louis XVI

• King Louis XIV

• Marie Antoinnette

• Robespierre

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

The wife of Louis XVI

• Marie Anntoinnette

• Robespierre

• The Bastille

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