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| 8935158961 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 0 | |
| 8935166940 | Rene Maupeau | French minister that taxes the 1rst and 2nd estate | 1 | |
| 8935174126 | Charles Alexandre de Calonne | French minister who tried unsuccessfully to raise taxes on nobility and clergy | 2 | |
| 8935178709 | Assembly of Notables | A group of nobles and aristocrats invited by the king of France to discuss reform of the government. | 3 | |
| 8935189819 | Estates General | An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France. | 4 | |
| 8935200096 | Bourgeoisie | Middle class | 5 | |
| 8935203806 | First Estate | Clergy | 6 | |
| 8935207039 | Second Estate | Nobility | 7 | |
| 8935212459 | Third Estate | 98% of the population made up of Bourgeoisie, San Cullotes, and the Peasent Farmers | 8 | |
| 8935218218 | Marie Antoinette | queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular | 9 | |
| 8935222899 | The Bastille | French prison that became known as a symbol of the royal abuse of power | 10 | |
| 8935226764 | Assignats | Revolutionary currency | 11 | |
| 8935238677 | The National Constituent Assembly | Abolished feudalism and published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. | 12 | |
| 8935247402 | The Civil Constitution of the Clergy | Laws brought in by the revolution reducing the power and wealth of the Church. | 13 | |
| 8935253169 | Émigrés | French nobility who fled country to escape the Revolution | 14 | |
| 8935261398 | Jacobins | member of a radical political club during the French Revolution | 15 | |
| 8935267584 | Sans culottes | a lower-class Parisian republican in the French Revolution. | 16 | |
| 8935290325 | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | 17 | |
| 8935297965 | The Levee en Masse | was the policy of forced mass military conscription of all able-bodied, unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25 adopted in the aftermath of the French Revolution | 18 | |
| 8935316925 | Robespierre | leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror | 19 | |
| 8935320652 | Thermidor | eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and August) | 20 | |
| 8935324815 | The Directory | 5 man executive branch of government proposed and adopted in France in 1795 | 21 |