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Money, bad harvest, unfair Estate System, Estates General,American Revolution, and Enlightened ideas
Causes of the French Revolution
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate General
Nobles: Had land and wealth. Did NOT have to pay taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estates General
Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate System
This system was based on social classes. The people with the most money did not have to pay taxes. The Third Estate had to pay all the taxes.
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate System
The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.
Estates General
Estates System
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
The leader of the Reign of Terror. He and the Jacobins started the Reign of Terror.
Robespierre
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinnette
Estates General
Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.
King Louis XVI
King Louis XIV
Marie Antoinnette
Robespierre
The document that increased the rights of all French citizens
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Declaration of Independence
Tennis Court Oath
Constitution
The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution
The Bastille
The Tennis Court
Versailles Palace
Paris
The symbol of terror during the French Revolution, used to execute traitors to the revolution.
Guillotine
Robespierre
The Jacobins
The Bastille
Third Estate members vowed to never give up until a constitution was written.
Tennis Court Oath
Estates General
Estates System
Guillotine
The wife of Louis XVI
Marie Anntoinnette
Robespierre
The Bastille
Lady Gaga
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