5B: French Revolution Vocab Quiz 23-24

The first class of French society made up of the clergy (church officials) of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Premiere Estate
• Initial Estate
• Primary Estate
• First Estate

The second class of French society made up of the nobility

• Noble Society
• Upper Class
• Royal Estate
• Second Estate

Which class made up 98% of the population of the middle class (Bourgeoisie and San Culottes) and the Peasant Farmers?

• Nobility
• Urban Workers
• Artisans
• Third Estate

King of France, weak leader, executed during the French Revolution

• King Louis XV
• King Louis XVI
• King John

• Napoleon Bonaparte

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France. Called to help Louis XVI solve the debt crisis.

• Monarch's Assembly
• Estates-General
• Royal Council
• Nobility Summit

a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people

• National Assembly
• Revolutionary Council
• People's Congress
• Royal Assembly

vow by members of the 3rd estate not to disband until a constitution was written

• Tennis Court Oath
• Baseball Diamond Vow
• Soccer Field Pledge
• Basketball Court Promise

Fortress in Paris. This structure was raided by angry members of the Third Estate and later was identified as the beginning of the French Revolution.

• Notre Dame Cathedral
• Bastille
• Louvre Museum
• Eiffel Tower

A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.

• Constitutional monarchy
• Absolute monarchy
• Anarchy
• Dictatorship

Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.

• Constitution of Rights
• Charter of Liberties
• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen