French Revolution Vocab

French society was broken up into 3 Estates: 1st Estate (clergy); 2nd Estate (nobility); 3rd Estate (commoners)

• Estate System

• Bastille

• Congress of Vienna

• Jacobins

An armory located in Paris that was stormed by revolutionaries kicking off the French Revolution

• The Bastille

• Palace of Versailles

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

Point in the French Revolution where Maximillien Robespierre was in power sending thousands to the guillotine.

• The Great Fear

• Red Scare

• Napoleonic Wars

• Reign of Terror

Meeting place for revolutionaries to create a constitution after being locked out of Versailles.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

• Bastille

• Palace of Versailles

New invention used during the Revolution to execute those who were “against” the Revolution. Ensured equality in execution.

• Jacobins

• Coup D'Etat

• Guillotine

• Napoleonic Wars

A series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon and various alliances of European nations in attempts to unify Europe.

• Napoleonic Wars

• Reign of Terror

• Congress of Vienna

• Nationalism

A series of meetings after the downfall of Napoleon in order to establish a peaceful Europe.

• Congress of Vienna

• Napoleonic Wars

• Nationalism

• Estate System

Sudden overthrow of government

• Nationalism

• Coup D'Etat

• Estate System

• Guillotine

A radical group of revolutionaries led by Robespierre that instituted the Reign of Terror

• Guillotine

• Congress of Vienna

• Nationalism

• Jacobins

A document that includes many Enlightenment ideas such as individual liberties and democracy.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Estate System

• Bastille