france rebellion

• Marie-Antoinette was the queen of France who was unpopular because she was from Austria and people did not like the idea of a foreign ruler.
• absolute monarchy is when the King rules alone and have total power over the country
• estates general is similar to a French parliament.The government in France before the Revolution
• first estate is the church
• second state are the nobles
• third estate were everyone else, including peasants and workers
• revolution is a forceful overthrowing of the government
• ancien régime is a old rule meaning the French monarchy and nobilty ruled the country
• French Revolution - 1789-1799 ehis the Ancien Regime was abolished and the ideas of liberte, egalite, and fraternite
• abolished means to get rid of something
• liberté - freedom

  égalité - equality*to be the same

  fraternité - brotherhood*when people are united in a common interest
• Storming of Bastille - July 14th 1789 when Parisians stormed the Bastille because people (thrid estate)thought that there was food and prisioners but once they attacked it there was little food and 7 prisioners. This is how the revelion started
• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen - August 26th 1789 where all men have rights that cannot be taken away by any power on earth
• Reign of Terror - 1793-1794 where Maximilien Robespierre executed anyone he thought was against him
• tennis court Oath was in 26th june 1789 when the thrid estate was angry with the first and second estate because they keep voting for the king when they promised liberte, egalite and fraternite
• versailles - the palace outside of Paris in which the royal faimly lived
• debt: owe money
• the meeting of the estates general was in 5th of May 1789 it was about the third estate complaining about the taxes and the king
• bastille - is the symbol of French
• declare - estate something
• property - something you own
• hoarding is storing things
• authority - power
• tyranny - cruel and unfair
• republic is a country without a king or queen, ruled by a president or prime minister
• treason is a crime against the king/country
• human rights are things people are allowed to do
• trials and execution of Louis XVI was December-January 1792-1793