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| 4894270836 | French Revolution | influential period of social and political upheaval in France that master from 1789 to 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French empire | 0 | |
| 4894270837 | Ancien Regime | the French term for europes old order | 1 | |
| 4894270838 | estates | social orders of the hierarchically conceived French society | 2 | |
| 4894270839 | Louis XVI | the king of France during the French revolution | 3 | |
| 4894270840 | Estates general | France's traditional assembly with representatives of the 3 classes in French society | 4 | |
| 4894270841 | national assembly | a French congress established by representatives of the third estates to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people | 5 | |
| 4894270842 | tennis court oath | a pledge made by the member of the France's National Assembly in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution | 6 | |
| 4894270843 | the bastille | as political tensions rose in France , this medieval fortress was stormed on July 14th by a revolutionary crowd who were attempting to commandeer the valuable gunpowder being held within the fortress. marks beginning of the French Revolution | 7 | |
| 4894270844 | declaration of the rights of man and the citizen | passed by France's national constituent assembly. it is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights | 8 | |
| 4894270845 | Marie antoinette | she assumed the title queen of France when her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI. growing population began to dislike her | 9 | |
| 4894270846 | sans-culottes | a radical group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to good shortages | 10 | |
| 4894270847 | national convention | assembly in France during the French Revolution. it succeeded the legislative assembly and founded the first republic after the Insurrection | 11 | |
| 4894270848 | the guillotine | a machine for beheading people, used as means for execution during the French Revolution | 12 | |
| 4894270849 | jacobins | radical republicans during the French Revolution. they were led by Maximilian Robespierre | 13 | |
| 4894270850 | Girondists | the more moderate wing of revolutionaries who favored an end to the monarchy but resisted the more radical, violent measures proposed | 14 | |
| 4894270851 | maximilien Robespierre | French lawyer and politician, and one of the best known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. | 15 | |
| 4894270852 | committee of public safety | this body was created by the national convention and later formed the executive government in France. it assumed the role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. | 16 | |
| 4894270853 | the terror | this was a period of violence that occurred after the onset French Revolution incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondists and the jacobins | 17 | |
| 4894270854 | Olympe de Gouges | she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality | 18 | |
| 4894270855 | Jean-paul Marat | his journalism became renowned for its fierce tone, uncompromising stance toward the new leaders and institutions of the Revolution, and advocacy of basic human rights for the poorest members of society | 19 | |
| 4894270856 | Georges Danton | leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first president of the committee of public safety | 20 |
