French Revolution
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| What is an absolute monarchy? | a monarch whose power is not limited by a representative assembly
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| What is a tithe? | 10% of one's income paid to the church
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| What was the First Estate? | The top tier of French society, made up of church leaders and clergy
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| Who were in the Second Estate? | Nobles
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| What % of the French people were considered the Third Estate? | 97%
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| Who were in the Third Estate? | bourgeoisie, proletariat, and peasants
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| Which group was made up of middle class citizens that were neither noble or poor? | bourgeoisie
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| Which group of citizens was made of city workers, such as bakers, tailors, and carpenters? | proletariat
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| What did it mean to be a courtier? | someone who lived at the palace and attended to the royal court
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| Who was the Dauphin? | the prince who is next in line to be king
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| What was the Estates-General? | the legislative body before the F.R. with representatives from all 3 Estates
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| What was pledged in the Tennis Court Oath? | the National Assembly agreed to write a new constitution
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| Someone who opposes rapid change and holds traditional values is what? | conservative
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| Someone who favors extreme change is what? | radical
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| Which French invention was designed to make execution faster and less painful? | guillotine
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| Who were the royalists? | supporters of the old regime
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| What does it mean to be exiled? | to be forced to leave one's own country to live somewhere else
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| What was the National Assembly? | the legislative body formed to represent the whole nation
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| Why did people storm the Bastille? | to raid the weapons storage to prepare for revolution
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| What was the name of the grand palace built by Louis XIV? | Versailles
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| Who did Marie Antoinette marry? | King Louis XVI
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| Who was known as the Sun King? | King Louis XIV
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| Who was Louis XVI's grandfather? | King Louis XV
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| Who was Robespierre? | the Jacobin leader who ran France with a Reign of Terror
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| Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? | the emperor of France for 15 years at the end of the French Revolution
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