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Chapter 7
Section One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Old Regime | The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution. |
| Estates | One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution. |
| Louis XVI | King of the 1770s and 1780s; was an extravagant spender. |
| Marie Antoinette | King Louis XVI's queen. |
| Estates-General | An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France. |
| National Assembly | a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
| Tennis Court Oath | 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. |
| Great Fear | A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. |