French Revolution Unit Review

Name of the political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service and protection of the people who live on the land.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Feudalism

• Absolutism

• Paris Salons

Before the Revolution, the people of France belonged in one of three large social groups called

• Schemas

• Social Circles

• Classes

• Estates

An assembly of representatives from all three of the social groups. On May 5, 1789, it met for the first time in 175 years

• Legislative Assembly

• National Assembly

• Estates General

• Congress

A political AND social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.

• Old Regime

• Third Estate

• Clergy

• First Estate

Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France's National Assembly in 1789

• French Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen

• French Bill of Rights

A form of government in which the monarch is limited in his/her powers through legislation, they have rules they must follow, they do not have "divine right".

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Limited Government

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

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

• Third Estate

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.

• Robespierre Era

• Reign of Horror

• Reign of Terror

• Scientific Revolution

A radical Political club during French Revolution that wanted to remove the king and establish a republic. Both middle class men and women joined

• Radicals

• Conservatives

• Emigres

• Jacobins

This committee was established during the French Revolution to identify enemies of the republic

• Committee of Public Safety

• Committee of French Safety

• Committee Against the King

• Committees of Correspondence