the french revolution

• what was the symbol of the french revolution?

  the guillotine
• what was the old regime?

  the traditional, political, and social system of france since the middle ages
• what were frances social classes called?

  estates
• what was the 1st estate?

  clergy which made up 0.5% of the people
• what was the second estate?

  nobles which made up 1.5% of the people
• what was the 3rd estate?

  commoners which made up 98% of the population
• what were the 3 kinds of people the 3rd estate contained?

  urban middle class, urban lower class, and peasants
• what was the urban middle class also known as?

  bourgeoisie
• what was the urban lower class also called?

  sans cullotes
• who were the leaders of the french revolution?

  the bourgeoisie
• who was king during the french revolution?

  louis XVI
• who did louis xvl marry?

  marie antoinette
• why was the french government in debt during louis xvl rein?

  borrowing money for war and lavish lifestyle
• what did robert tugot tell louis xvl?

  ”watch your head”
• what did frances estates general equal to?

  english parliament
• what happened in france may 1st 1789?

  the estates general met at versailles
• what was the estates general?

  representative body of the french people
• what did the 3rd estate demand due to the fact that each estate only had one vote?

  equal representation and that they all meet together
• what did the 3rd estate change its name to?

  the national assembly
• what did the tennis court oath do?

  vow that the national assembly would give france a constitution
• what was bastille?

  a prison in france
• what happened July 14th 1789?

  paris mobs stormed bastille
• what did bastille day show?

  popular support for the revolution
• what was the storming of bastille also known as?

  bastille day
• what is july 14 1789 in france?

  french independence day
• what happened during the great fear?

  peasant rebellions, nobles homes were burnt, crops were set on fire and most of the country side gets burned
• what was the summer of 1789 also known as?

  the great fear
• what the a women march on versailles?

  a mob of 40,000 women marched to versailles and knocked down the gates
• when was it known that louis had lost control?

  when he agreed to go back to paris with the women mob
• what was #1 of the reforms of the national assembly?

  declaration of rights of man and citizen
• what was #2 of the reforms of the national assembly?


  civil constitution of the clergy which gave the government control of the french catholic church
• what was #3 of the national assembly reforms?

  constitution of 1791 which gave france a limited monarchy
• when did louis and his family free france?

  june of 1791
• what happened in october of 1791?

  the new legislative assembly met and split into factions
• what do conservatives (right wing) want?

  for things to not change
• what do moderates want?


  a little change
• what do liberals (left wing) want?

  a lot of change
• what do radicals (far left) want?

  everything to change
• what do reactionaries (far right) want?


  to go back to past power
• what was a result of the war against prussia?


  radicals took control of the revolution