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French Revolution Vocabulary

French Revolution Vocabulary. Please get desks back into groups. Can you remember our “Enlightenment Thinkers” and what they represented? How could their ideas lead to a revolution? What is a revolution?. First Estate.

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French Revolution Vocabulary

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  1. French Revolution Vocabulary

  2. Please get desks back into groups. • Can you remember our “Enlightenment Thinkers” and what they represented? • How could their ideas lead to a revolution? • What is a revolution?

  3. First Estate • Church leaders (i.e. priests, bishops, etc.) who owned 15% of the land. • Only 1% (1 out of every 100) of the people of France were in the 1st Estate. • Privileged from birth • They didn’t have to pay taxes.

  4. Second Estate • The wealthy nobles who owned 15% of the land. • Privileged from birth • Only 2% of the people • Didn’t pay taxes • Had one vote

  5. King Louis XVI • King of France, a noble of the 2nd Estate • Wanted to tax the nobles at the Estates General because of France’s debt (money owned) • Did not understand how poor most of the people of France were

  6. Third Estate • Consisting of all other French people who were not of the 1st and 2nd Estates • Some were wealthy but not born of noble birth – sometimes called “bourgeois” or common people • Many times larger than either of the first two estates • Paid taxes • Had one vote and 97% of the population

  7. Bourgeoisie • Non-noble rich people who were part of the 3rd Estate • Main leaders of the French Revolution • Lawyers, shopkeepers, etc./middle class

  8. Estates General • An ancient assembly (group of representatives) consisting of the three different estates • Each represented a portion of the French population

  9. National Assembly • Realizing they had much more of the population represented, the Third Estate declared themselves a new country. • They wanted to a new Constitution for France

  10. Tennis Court Oath • Having been locked out of the Estates General, the new National Assembly went to a tennis court next door. • They swore they would not leave until a new constitution had been agreed upon.

  11. Declaration of the Rights of Man • After the Revolution began, the General Assembly released the Declaration of Man • This document established new laws for France • Declared a new country

  12. Bastille • A prison in Paris where weapons were kept • Bastille Day: July 14, 1789 a mob attacked the Bastille, releasing 14 prisoners and taking weapons • This is the beginning of the French Revolution

  13. Robespierre and the Jacobins • A leader of the National Convention and a member of the Jacobins • Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers • Between 1793-1794, he had 15,000 (guillotined) beheaded; he was then beheaded in 1794.

  14. Reign of Terror • Robespierre and the Jacobins go throughout the country guillotining thousands • After foreign invaders are pushed out by the army and after the economy is stable (country’s money situation is okay), Robespierre is guillotined.

  15. Napoleon Bonaparte • With the army becoming strong, Napoleon (a general) becomes stronger • In 1799 Napoleon leads a takeover of the capital city, Paris • Napoleon declares himself “First Consul” (leader of France) • This ended the French Revolution

  16. Napoleonic Code • Napoleon created his own French law (laws for France) in 1804 • Laws were simple and gave the equality desired by the 3rd Estate

  17. Continental System • Napoleon set out to take over Europe • 1806, the Continental System was to stop Britain’s trading with the rest of Europe (Britain includes islands separate from the European mainland)

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