Chapter 18 Flashcards
First estate
Clergy
Second estate
Titled nobility of French society
Third estate
Most diverse of all social classes
Hit and run warfare
Guerrilla warfare
to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state
Annex
Bourgeoisie
Third, middle class
Military tactic when you destroy everything in your path when you are retreating so that the people that you are retreating from can’t get to you
Scorched earth policy
when a government spends more than it takes in
Deficit spending
weak and indecisive
Louis XVI
financial expert and advisor to King Louis XVI
Jacques Necker
a popular vote by ballot
Plebiscite
a legislative body consisting of representatives of the three French estates
estates general
notebooks that listed the grievance of each estate
Cahiers
A small, dissenting group within a larger one
Faction
Step down from power
Abdicate
Leader of the National Guard
Marquis de Lafayette
Executed for publicly expressing her views and demanding equal rights 4 women
Olymphe de Gouges