Test review

• 3rd Estate

  • Peasants
  • Laborers
  • Bourgeoisie
• Privileges of the 1st Estate

  • Owed land
  • Received money from peasants
  • Didn't pay taxes
• 2nd Estate


  • Nobles
• Privileges of the 2nd Estate

  • Right to sword
  • Titles
  • Land
  • Few taxes
  • Collected feudal dues from peasants
  • Primogeniture
• Population of the peasants
• Last Estates General meeting
• What the peasants had to pay

  • Tithes
  • Feudal dues
  • Rents
  • Taxes
• How the National Assembly came to be

  1. Estates General said everyone shouldn't vote individually

  2. They revolted and met on their own
• Who said "after me, the deluge"
• Who built Versailles
• Who was the "well-beloved" king
• How old was Louis XVI when he became king
• Why Louis called in the Estates General

  Debt - upper class won't get taxed and bankers won't give him money
• Abbé Sieyès: '"Nothing would be good without the 3rd estate" - 3rd estate is EVERYTHING'
• Problem with the Estates General meeting
• Why the Estates General voting was unfair
• Tennis Court Oath

  The oath many people took to not stop meeting until a constitution was written and adopted
• Where was Marie Antoinette from
• Storming of the Bastille


  July 14, 1789
• Great Fear

  Hunger, poor harvest, rumors, many peasant riots - REBELLION
• What the August Decrees did

  1. Abolished feudalism

  2. Repealed all feudal dues and tithes

  3. Removed privileges
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• Influences on the Declaration of Rights of Man

  US Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights
• Main idea behind the Declaration of Rights of Man

  Democracy and rights
• What the Women's March accomplished
• Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women
• When did Louis try to escape
• What replaced the National Assembly
• When did the French start talking about a republic
• What was the Declaration of Pillnitz
• What officially ended the monarchy
• Why did the Legislative Assembly dissolve
• Execution method
• Reign of Terror begins


  September 1793
• Robespierre


  A Jacobin leader who was in charge of the Reign of Terror
• Émigrés


  Nobles who fled France and tried to get foreign countries to restore the monarchy
• Girondists

  • Came from Gironde
  • Represented middle class
  • Feared a dominated Paris France
  • Republicans but NOT radicals
• Major figures executed during the Reign of Terror

  • King Louis XVI
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Charlotte Corday
  • Olympe de Gouges
  • Danton
• What came after the Reign of Terror
• Things the National Convention had to deal with

  • Disorder
  • Revolts in France
  • Foreign invaders
  • Another constitution
  • Create a republic
  • Get rid of the monarch