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| 3670088451 | Bourgeoisie | French educated middle class |  | 0 |
| 3670089804 | Estates System | 1st- Clergy; 2nd- Nobles; 3rd- everyone else |  | 1 |
| 3670091048 | Estates General | France's traditional assembly with representatives of the three estates, or classes, in French society: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. The calling of the ____________ in 1789 led to the French Revolution. |  | 2 |
| 3670092342 | Cahier de doleances | List of grievances that each Estate drew up in preparation for the summoning of the Estates-General in 1789 |  | 3 |
| 3670093556 | National Assembly | French Revolutionary assembly (1789-1791). Called first as the Estates General, the three estates came together and demanded radical change. It passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. |  | 4 |
| 3670095590 | Abbe Sieyes | He believed that the nobility was useless, his motto became: "confidence from below, authority from above." Wrote What is the Third Estate? |  | 5 |
| 3670096006 | Tennis Court Oath | A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution |  | 6 |
| 3670096745 | Fall of the Bastille | Hundreds of hungry people stormed the prison in search of gunpowder to save Paris and the National Assembly; this was the symbolic start of the revolution |  | 7 |
| 3670097351 | August 4th Decrees | feudal privileges were renounced and all French citizens were subject to the same and equal laws |  | 8 |
| 3670099399 | Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen | French Revolution document that outlined what the National Assembly considered to be the natural rights of all people and the rights that they possessed as citizens. Motivated and influenced by U.S. Declaration of Independence. |  | 9 |
| 3670100162 | Olympe de Gouges | A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She lost her life to the guillotine due to her revolutionary ideas. |  | 10 |
| 3670102835 | Jean Paul Marat | French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793) |  | 11 |
| 3670105264 | Women's March on Versailles | Working women marched to Versailles demanding bread & attention from the king. They demanded the royal family move to Paris. |  | 12 |
| 3670108236 | Civil Constitution of the Clergy | A document, issued by the National Assembly in July 1790, that broke ties with the Catholic Church and established a national church system in France with a process for the election of regional bishops. The document angered the pope and church officials and turned many French Catholics against the revolutionaries. |  | 13 |
| 3670110147 | Jacobins | The most radical political faction (party) of the French Revolution who ruled France during the Reign of Terror. They have two factions: the Girondins and Mountain. |  | 14 |
| 3670110148 | Declaration of Pillnitz | afraid that other countries would follow France's lead and begin revolutions, Emperor Leopold II of Austria and King Frederick William II of Prussia issued this declaration in August 27, 1791, inviting other European monarchs to intervene on behalf of Louis XVI if his monarchy was threatened. |  | 15 |
| 3670113651 | Committee of Public Safety | Established and led by Robespierre, fixed bread prices and nationalized some businesses. Basically secret police and also controlled the war effort. Instigated the Reign of Terror. |  | 16 |
| 3670114453 | Robespierre | A French political leader of the eighteenth century. A Jacobin, he was one of the most radical leaders of the French Revolution. He was in charge of the government during the Reign of Terror, when thousands of persons were executed without trial. After a public reaction against his extreme policies, he was executed without trial. |  | 17 |
| 3670115432 | Reign of Terror | (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty" |  | 18 |
| 3670116320 | Thermidorian Reaction | A reaction to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls. |  | 19 |
| 3670117661 | The Directory | Established after the Reign of Terror / National Convention; a five man group as the executive branch of the country; incompetent and corrupt, only lasted for 4 years. |  | 20 |
| 3670118393 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew the French revolutionary government (The Directory) in 1799 and became emperor of France in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile. |  | 21 |
| 3670136669 | Concordat of 1801 | This is the agreement between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon that healed the religious division in France by giving the French Catholics free practice of their religion and Napoleon political power |  | 22 |
| 3670137124 | Napoleonic Code | This was the civil code put out by Napoleon that granted equality of all male citizens before the law and granted absolute security of wealth and private property. Napoleon also secured this by creating the Bank of France which loyally served the interests of both the state and the financial oligarchy |  | 23 |
| 3670138584 | Continental System | Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe, intended to destroy Great Britain's economy. |  | 24 |
