First Estate (clergy), Second Estate (nobility), Third Estate (commoners)
First Class, Second Class, Third Class
Monarchs, Nobles, Merchants
Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class
King Louis XVI
King Louis XIV
King Henry VIII
King Charles V
France's financial crisis due to debt and extravagant spending
High taxes on the clergy
The Industrial Revolution
A surplus of crops and food
A general assembly representing the three estates of the realm
The revolutionary government formed during the French Revolution
A high court of France during the revolution
A new political party in revolutionary France
A vow by the Third Estate to not disband until a new constitution was created
An agreement to pay taxes by the First Estate
The formation of the royal army to suppress the revolution
The treaty to cease hostilities between France and Austria
Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu
Cervantes
Galileo
Thomas Hobbes
July 14, 1789
August 4, 1789
June 20, 1789
May 5, 1789
Social inequality and influence of Enlightenment ideas
The rise of industrialization
The German Reformation
The invention of the printing press
The Third Estate
The First Estate
The Second Estate
The Fourth Estate
It was a symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy.
It represented the French Enlightenment.
It was the military power center of France.
It was the first democratic assembly in France.
Famine led to skyrocketing bread prices, causing unrest
It led to an abundance of food lowering tensions
It caused migration to rural areas
Famine created economic prosperity
Inspired ideas of liberty and democracy; showed overthrowing a monarchy was possible
It led to financial aid to France
It had no impact on France
It established a strong alliance between America and France
A finance minister popular for his reform ideas
A revolutionary leader who led the storming of the Bastille
The king's advisor on foreign policy
A famous general in the French army
The convening of the Estates-General in 1789.
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
The decline of the Roman Empire.
The marriage of King Louis XVI.
Notebooks of grievances presented to the Estates-General.
The royal edict to control trade.
A revolutionary manifest
A collection of revolutionary songs