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
What was the name of the new legislative (law making) body set up by the National Assembly?
Legislative Assembly
What was the group of Nobles and others who fled France but wanted to restore the Old Regime?
Émigrés
What was the name of the group of workers and shopkeepers who wanted even more revolutionary change in France?
sans-culottes
What two countries did France go to war with because they wanted France to restore King Louis XVI?
Austria and Prussia
What was the name of the radical political group in France that caused many changes in Government?
Jacobins
Which Jacobin leader slowly gained power, what did he set out to create, and how dod he do it?
Maximilien Robespierre set out to build a “republic of virtue” by wiping out every trace of France’s past.
During the Reign of Terror, what group carried out countless assassinations?
Committee of Public Safety
How did Robespierre die?
went to the guillotine
