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| Question | Answer |
| Estates | France's population had been divided by law into one of three status group |
| The First Estate | Consisted of the clergy |
| The Second Estatue | The nobles |
| The Third Eststue | Everyone Else. Anyone from the lowliest peasant to the wealthiest merchant |
| Taille | France's chief tax |
| Bourgeoisie | middle class, was another part of the Third Estate |
| Louis XVI | The opposition of these elites to the old order led them to take drastic action against the absolute monarchy |
| Maria Antoinette | was especially known for her extravagance and this too caused popular resentment |
| Tennis Court Oath | The oath they swore |
| Storming of the Bastile | Where the Third Estate fought the king's troop's and stole the troop's guns and all they need was gun power, and the knew where to find it. They when to Bastile and fought and when they got there hand on the prison warden they cut off his head, then the crowd demolished the Bastile brick by brick |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | Inspired by the English Bill of Rights of 1689 an by the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the charter of basic liberties began with " the natural and impescriptible rights of man" to " liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression." |
| Maximilen Robespierre | Robespierre was one of the revolution's most important leaders and a radicical Jacobin |
| Reign of Terror | To defend France from domestic threats, the Committee adopted polices |
| Coup D'etat | a sudden overthrow of government. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte's | In one sence, he brought the Revolution to an end when to power in 1799. he was a child of the revolution as well. himself never failed to remind the French that he had preserved the the best parts of the revolution during his regin as emperor. |
| Guillotine | a thing where they cut off people heads |
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