French Revolution

First Estate
- 1% pop
- Roman Catholic Clergy
- ----Higher & Lower Clergy
Second Extate
- 2% pop
- Nobility
- 25% land owned
Third Estate
- phesants/artisons/middle class
- Few political rights
The Directory
- formed from constitution
- 2 house legislature
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Louis XVI

tried to solve financial crisis
The Bastille

fortress/prison in Paris
Declaration of the Rights of Man

France's constitution
Guillotine

way to kill people
Sans Culottes

a revolutionary of the poorer class
The Reign of Terror
- Jacobin's set to crush all opposition in France
- - guillotine
Marie Antoinette

wife of Louis XVI
Tennis Court Oath

oath taken not to disband until thay had written a new constitution for France
Jacobins

Group that set to crush all opposition in france during war
Robespierre

Ruler during reign of terror
Girondists

political group of moderate republicans in the French Revolution
The Convention
- comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly
- It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic. It was succeeded by the Directory

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French Revolution

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2011-06-02T03:33:41Z