French Revolution Flashcards
What percent of the French population made the third estate?
97%
What were the names of the social classes that people were divided into under the Old Regime in France’s 1770s?
1st estate
2nd estate
3rd estate
What was the name of the enlightened middle class of the third estate
Bourgeoise
What was the largest group in the third estate
Peasants
Which group paid the most taxes in the third estate? Why?
The bourgeoise because they made the most money in the third estate
What was the biggest kind of inequality between the states?
Taxation and representation
What was an estates general?
An assembly of representatives from all three estates
What did king louis xvi want to enforce the old rule at the old regime that the three estates had to meet separately?
He wanted to pass his new taxation law making first and second estates have to pay taxes like the third
*impose taxes on nobility!
How did the third estate want to meet and vote at the estates general and why did they want it that way
They wanted all estates to meet up and have EVERY DELEGATE vote because they have more delegates than the first and second combined
*automatic win
What did the third estate agree to do known as the tennis court act
They would stay until they had written a new constitution
What is the date of the storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789
What is the name of the period where senseless panic caused the peasants to attack nobles?
The great fear
What kind of rights did the declaration of the man and citizen focus on
Natural rights (John Locke) Equal justice Freedom of speech + religion
What was the motto of the French Revolution
Liberty, equality, and fraternity
What kind of government did the National Assembly create
Limited constitutional monarchy
What did a limited constitutional monarchy do
It stripped the king of too much authority
Created a new legislative body
What was the legislative body’s job
Create laws
Approve/reject war declarations
What was the group of nobles and other 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? How?
Maximilien Robespierre
Republic of Virtue (COPS)
By wiping out France’s past
During the reign of terror, which group carried out countless assassinations
Committee of public safety (guillotine)
How did Robespierre die?
National convention members feared their safety and announced he needs to be killed
