French Revolution

Which people group makes up the 1st Estate?

• Peasants, Craftsman, Bourgeoisie

• Clergy, Monks, Nuns

• Nobility

• Monarchy

The 2nd Estate is made up of the nobility of France.

• True

• False

The 3rd Estate consists of which people group?

• Peasants, Craftsman, Bourgeoisie

• Clergy, Monks, Nuns

• Nobility

• Monarchy

The 1st and 2nd estates paid half of their income in taxes.

• True

• False

This system was based on social classes. The people with the most money did not have to pay taxes. The Third Estate had to pay all the taxes.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate System

The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.

• Estates General

• Estates System

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution

• The Bastille

• The Tennis Court

• Versailles Palace

• Paris

The symbol of terror during the French Revolution, used to execute traitors to the revolution.

• Guillotine

• Robespierre

• The Jacobins

• The Bastille

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

• Tennis Court Oath

• Estates General

• Estates System

• Guillotine

This was NOT a cause of the French Revolution

• France was deeply in debt

• Inequality of French social classes

• ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers

• Religious issues