French Revolution

This was NOT a cause of the French Revolution

• France was deeply in debt

• Inequality of French social classes

• ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers

• Religious issues

Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate General

Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate System

Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.

• King Louis XVI

• King Louis XIV

• Marie Antoinnette

• Robespierre

The document that increased the rights of all French citizens

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Declaration of Independence

• Tennis Court Oath

• Constitution

The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution

• The Bastille

• The Tennis Court

• Versailles Palace

• Paris

Third Estate members vowed to never give up until a constitution was written.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Estates General

• Estates System

• Guillotine

The Second Estate was composed of 

• Church leaders
• Nobility
• Peasants
• none of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

What was the final outcome of the French Revolution? 

• the declaration of the Edict of Nantes
• Napoleon naming himself Emperor of France
• unification of French city­ states
• the restoration of Louis XVI