The 1st Estate was made up of the _______.

About how much % if the population was it?

Why where they able to own 10-15% if the land? (Hint: $)

1)Clergy (Galicans)

2) 1%

3) Didn't have to pay taxes and collected Tithes (10% of person's income)

What did the 2nd Estate consist of?

About how much % were they and how much % of the land did they own?

What have they been avoiding?

They often held high positions where?

1) Nobility

2) 2% and 20-25%

3) Getting taxed

4) Government/Church/Army

What was the 3rd Estate made up of?

How much % were they?

What is the order of their status/wealth? (3 answers)

1) Peasnants and everyone else

2) 98%

3) Bourgeoise/Artisans and workers/Peasant farmers

Which taxes were placed on the 3rd estate?

What is the taille? The Tithe?

1) Taille/Tithe/Income tax/Pole tax

2) Land tax

3) Church tax from 10% of annual income

4) Salt tax (Gabelle)

Who were the educated and enlightened people of the middle class?

Why did they want political and social power?

Why did they resent the 1st and 2nd estates?

1) Bourgeoise

2) catch up with economic power

3) they held all of the political power

Who were the representatives of the 3rd Estate in the Estates General?

How wealthy were they?

1) Bourgeoise

2) As wealthy as the nobility

Who  made up 80% of the population?

What tax did they have to pay?

1) Peasant Farmers

3) Corvee and taxes to nobility

1) Government inefficiency

2) Corruption

3) Priveleges of the aristocracy

What were the Parlements?

How did it affect the revolution?

1) Royal courts dominated by hereditary nobility

2) difficult to tax wealthy

1) no banks/paper currency/credit

2) Wealthy couldn't get taxed, only the poor since nobles were exempt from taxes

1) Seven Years War

2) War os Austrian Succession

3) American Revolution

How is Louis XVI significant to the American Revolution?

He was respected until the ______ _____.

Overall, he was a ______ ruler. (characteristic)

1) Helped defeat the British

2) French Revolution

3) Weak/indecisive

Who was the finance director in France? (1st one)

Who did he anger and how?

What did he believe about the debt?

1) Jaques Necker

2) aristocrats by saying they were getting too much money

3) Wasn't that bad

What did Calonne want to do?

What happened to this plan?

How could this plan be passed?

Who is brought back eventually as a finance minister?

1) Land tax for all classes

2) Rejected by the Assembly of Notables

3) Estates General

4) Necker

How did the voting system in the original Estates General work?

What was revised? Why?

1) 1 vote per estate/separate voting

2) 3rd Estate was counted as two votes because the 3rd Estate was large and wanted to have equality w/ 1st and 2nd estates

Why did the NA (National Assembly) gather in a tennis court?

What did they say they must do?

What does King Louis XVI do?

1) Locked out of their meeting place

2) Make a constitution

3) Has Estates General meet with the assembly

After meeting with the NA, the Estates General and NA become?

This is composed of?

1) National Constituent Assembly

2) All 3 estates

What was the NA made mostly of?

This ended what?

What type of government was established?

1) Bourgeoise

2) Absolute monarchy

3) Constitutional Monarchy (Representative Government)

What was the Bastille used for in medieval times?

What did it hold?

What were the rumors about the Bastille?

1) Fortress/Prison

2) Political Prisoners

3) That there was torture against the prisoners

What was their a shortage of during the Bastille?

What were people afraid of?

What does this cause the people to do?

Who did Louis XVI fire?

1) Food

2) Louis XVi would use all of his troops around Versailles/Paris to end revolution

3) To arm themselves (Where are they going to get guns?)

4) Necker

Who led the National Guard to the Bastille?

What did the three colors stand for?

1) Marquiss de Lafayette

2) Red/Blue for Paris, White for House of Bourbon

What was the significant of the Bastille?

1) Louis recognizes new gov.

2) Louis planned on using troops (helped NA)

3) Revolution is strong

What happens on the night of August 4, 1789?

What does the NA end?

What does the NA establish?

What is officially abolished?

1)Nobles and clergymen renounce all their rights to stop the rights

2) Serfdom/Feudalism, crvee, and priveleges of 1st/2nd estates

3) Equality in taxes and law

4) Old Regime

American:

1) Constitution/Declatation/Cons. Monarchy/

2) Power to the people (sovereignty)

Match each statement with an enlightened philosopher.

1) Separation of powers

2)Freedom of expression/religion

3)Due process

4)Men are born and remain free/equal rights

5)Natural rights are liberty/property/security/resistance to gov

6)Law is expression of the General Will

These were all apart of?

1)Montesquieu

2)Voltaire

3)Beccaria

4)Locke

5)Locke

6)Roussea

7)Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

What increased rights were women given during the French Revolution?

What were they not given equality in?

1) Divorce

2) Inherit property

3) Child support

4) Law

5) Education

6) Jobs

What did Olympe de Gouges write?

What happened to her later?

Who else called for this change?

1) Declaration of the Rights of Woman

2) Ignored and guillotined

3) Mary Wollstonecraft

What caused the March on Versailles?

What was the result of this march?

1) Women upset about bread prices

2) Louis/NA moved to Paris to be watched more carefully

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy cause the Clergy to choose?

What did it do to church property?

1) Either Gallican Church by taking an oath and be excommunicated or choose Roman Catholic Church and not be paid or part of Galican Church

2) Took control of their land

What were Assignats?

What ended up resulting because of the excess amount of these?

1) Notes that promised people would be paid back when government sold church property (currency)

2) Caused inflation making the poor suffer

What did the Constitution of 1792 establish?

Who sat to the left, middle and right?

1) Constitutional monarych/Unicameral Legislative Assembly

2) Liberals/Moderates/Conservatives