Estates General – Flashcards

France's traditional national assembly with representatives of the three estates, or classes, in French society: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. The calling of the Estates General in 1789 led to the French Revolution. (p. 585)

Delegates of the Third Estate declared themselves this and began writing a constitution

a pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

Bastille used to hold prisoners. Stormed at beginning of Revolution to find weapons. Symbolic of Revolution.

Natural rights, religion, speech, property

The three groups of people in the political spectrum. Radicals wanted change, moderates wanted some change, and conservatives wanted little change.

any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France

a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the french revolution

Young provincial lawyer who led the most radical phases of the French Revolution. His execution ended the Reign of Terror.

The slogan adopted by the National Assembly meaning life, freedom, and brothership

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them