The French Revolution

Money, bad harvest, unfair Estate System, Estates General,American Revolution, and Enlightened ideas

• Causes of the French Revolution

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate General

Nobles: Had land and wealth. Did NOT have to pay taxes

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estates 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

This system was based on social classes. The people with the most money did not have to pay taxes. The Third Estate had to pay all the taxes.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• Estate System

The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.

• Estates General

• Estates System

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

The leader of the Reign of Terror. He and the Jacobins started the Reign of Terror.

• Robespierre

• King Louis XVI

• Marie Antoinnette

• Estates General

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