Chapter 7 Sections 1 & 2 Flashcards
What were the names of the social classes that people were divided into under the Old Regime in France in the 1770s?
the clergy, nobles, commoners
What percent of the French population made up the “Third Estate”?
97/98%
What was the name of the group in the Third Estate who were the enlightened middle class?
bourgeoisie
What was the name of the largest group in the Third Estate?
peasants
Which group paid the most taxes in the Third Estate?
peasants
What was the biggest kind of inequality between the estates?
the clergy and nobles had privilege and special treatment
What was an “Estates General”?
an assembly of representatives from all three states
Why did the King Louis XVI want to enforce the old rule at the Estates General that the three estates had to meet separately?
he sided with the nobles to outvote the Third Estate
How did the Third Estate want to meet and vote at the Estates General and why did they want it that way?
all three meet together and that each delegate have a vote, this would give them the advantage since they had many people
What did the Third Estate agree to do that was called the Tennis Court Oath?
pledged to stay until they had drawn up a new constitution
What is the date of the Storming of the Bastille?
July 14, 1789
What was the name of the time period when a wave of senseless panic caused the peasants to attack the nobles?
Great Fear
What kinds of rights did the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen” focus on?
liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression, guaranteed equal justice, freedom of speech and religion
What was the motto of the French Revolution?
“liberty, equality, fraternity”
What kind of government did the National Assembly eventually create?
limited constitutional monarchy
