Quiz #6 (Unit 3 Terms 1-10)

The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• The Old Regime

• Third Estate

The first class of French society made up of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• The Old Regime

• Third Estate

The second class of French society made up of the nobility

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• The Old Regime

• Third Estate

The third class of French society made up of the bourgeoisie, the san-culottes and the peasants; they paid high taxes and had no special privileges

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• The Old Regime

• Third Estate

King of France who was overthrown with the French Revolution (killed by the guillotine)

• King Louis XVI

• King Louis XIV

• King Louis XV

• King Louis XVIII

queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular for her extravagant spending and disconnection with the French people

• Marie Curie

• Marie Antoinette

• Marie Francois

• Marie Bourgeoisie

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.

• Old Regime

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Congress

Educated, middle class of France; provided force behind the Revolution

• Bourgeoisie

• Middle Class

• Rich People

• Second Estate

Declaration made mainly by members of the Third Estate not to disband until they had drafted a constitution for France

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Revolution

• Tennis Court Oath

• Football Field Oath

July 14, 1789; first symbolic act of violence against the monarchy, the beginning of the French Revolution

• The Guillotine

• Storming the Bastille

• The Great Fear

• The Reign of Terror