Unit 3: Revolutions

The First Estate was made up of this group.

• clergy

• common people

• nobles

• kings and queens

The Second Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy

• common people

• priests

• nobles

The Third Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy
• nobles
• common people
• kings and queens

What was the Divine Right of Kings?

• right to not pay taxes
• God given right to rule
• predetermined rise to power
• enlightenment of kings

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 1st and 3rd Estates

Monarch of France during the 1780s

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIII

An assembly of representatives from all three estates that met for the first time in 175 years when Louis XVI called them together.

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen

Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, he and his followers tried to wipe out all traces of France's past monarchies.

• Louis XVI

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Napoleon Bonaparte

Who did the British fight to control land in North America?

• Ukraine

• Russia

• Iran

• France

What was the name of the war that started the American Revolution?

• British Parliament

• The French and Indian War

• Lexington and Concord

• The Civil War