Key Terms-French Revolution

Socially or politically privileged class whose titles are given by inheritance or royal decree

• Nobility

• Middle Class

• Journeyman

• Burgher

• Guild

Severe or general scarcity of food in a region, often the result of crop failure, resulting in extreme hunger, starvation, and death

• Famine

• Epidemic

• Tithe

• Suffrage

• Conscription

Government in which the ruler has unlimited power and authority over her or his people

• Absolutism

• Nobility

• Oligarchy

• Republicanism

• Coalition

Person with extreme views, favoring sweeping economic, political, or social change

• Moderate

• Radical

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Reactionary

Form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizens

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Diplomacy

Person or group that does not want to change existing conditions

• Moderate

• Radical

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Reactionary

Persons who do not hold extreme political views

• Moderate

• Radical

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Reactionary

The right to vote

• Tithe

• Estate

• Regime

• Conscription

• Suffrage

In the Middle Ages, one of the three large social classes: nobles, commoners, or clergy

• Tithe

• Estate

• Regime

• Conscription

• Suffrage

Mode or system of rule or government; ruling or prevailing system; a planned way of doing things, especially one imposed from above

• Tithe

• Estate

• Regime

• Conscription

• Suffrage