1. Vocab that will knock your head off!!!
The French Revolution
Vocab that will knock your head off!!!

2. Old Regime
The political and social system of France before the French Revolution that divided France into three distinct classes.

3. Estate
One of the three social classes of France before the revolution:
1st Estate=Clergy
2nd Estate=Nobility
3rd Estate=Commoners

4. Louis XVI (16th)
King of France at the time of the French Revolution

5. Marie Antoinette
Queen of France during the French Revolution; wife of Louis XVI.

6. Estates General
An gathering of representatives from all three estates of France.

7. Tennis Court Oath
A pledge made by members of the 3rd estate to continue to meet at Versailles until a constitution was created.

8. Declaration of the Rights of Man
A French Constitution created during the French Revolution in 1789

9. Maximilien Robespierre
Radical leader of France during the “Reign of Terror”

10. Reign of Terror
Period from when thousands of people from all estates were executed by Guillotine

11. Napoleon Bonaparte
Popular French general during the French Revolution and eventual Emperor of France