French Revolution 11-1

"without breeches," members of the Paris Commune

• bourgeoisie

• sans-culottes

• 1st Estate

• feudalism

Aristocratic privileges

• 2nd Estate

• National Assembly

• Relics of feudalism

• Paris Bastille

Members of the Paris community who considered themselves ordinary patriots. They wore trousers.

• Louis XVI

• 3rd Estate

• Bourgeoisie

• Sans-culottes

Which estate paid taxes (taille)

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

• A promise to remove all clergy

• A vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution

• the Church trying to take over the 2nd Estate

• held at Versailles

Merchants, bankers, industrialist, professionals made up this group

• Bourgeoisie

• Sans-culottes

• Estates General

• 1st Estate

Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees because

• he wanted to pay taxes.

• he sold the Tennis Court Oath

• the army turned against him

• thousands of Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family.

The National Assembly's Constitution of 1791

• satisfied the clergy and lower class

• set up a limited monarchy

• abolish the monarchy

• gave women the right to vote

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen gave women the right to vote.

• True

• False

The 1st Estate made up 98% of the population in Pre-Revolutionary France?

• True

• False