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| Question | Answer |
| Estates | the population divided by law into one of the three statues or estates. |
| First Estate | Or clergy, numbered about 130,000 out of the total. And owned 10% of the land. |
| Second State | The nobilty.The nobles owned between 20 and 30 percent of the land in France, but consisted of about 1.5 percent of the population. |
| Third Estate | Everybody else – 98% of the population, who owned 60-70 percent of the land in France. The third estate could be divided into three groups: the bourgeoisie, the sans culottes, and the peasants. |
| Taille | France's chief tax. |
| Bourgeoisie | Or middle class. |
| Louis XVI | |
| Queen Marie Antoinette | |
| Tennis Court Oath | A pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | A fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. |
| Maximilien Robespierre | |
| Reign of Terror | Policies that the committee adopted. |
| Coup D`etat | A sudden overthrow of the government. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| Versailles | the treaty of 1919 imposed upon Germany by the Allies: the most important of the five peace treaties that concluded World War I |
| Storming of the Bastille |
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