French Revolution

Nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people.

• National Assembly

• The Estates

• New Regime

• Feudalism

A pledge made by members of France's National Assembly in 1789 in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drafted a new Constitution.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Handball Oath

• Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

Social class consisting of the clergy.

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• The CHURCH!

Monarch of france during the 1780s

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIII

Assembly under the new Constitution that had the power to create laws and to approve or prevent any war the king declared on other nations.

• Legislative Assembly

• National Assembly

• Estates General

• Congress

A radical group of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.

• Sans-Cullotes

• Moderates

• Emigres

• Jacobins

The period from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.

• Great Fear

• French Revolution

• Reign of Terror

• Tennis Court Oath

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

• Louis XVI

• Maximillien Robespierre

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Napoleon Bonaparte

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

July 14, 1789, a French mob stormed a prison. The mob successfully captured the gunpowder they were after.

• Storming of the Bastille

• The Great Fear

• Storming of Pompei

• Sandstorm