French Revolution Flashcards
Three estates
Clergy, nobles, others
Facts about clergy
Owned 10% of land, collected tithes, don’t pay taxes, ran schools, hospitals, and orphanages
Facts about nobles
Easy lives, live by tradition, given jobs in gov, army, court, and church, don’t pay taxes
What are the two levels in the third estate
Bourgeois, proletariat
Who was the bourgeoisie
5% of the people in France, middle class, bankers, manufactures, doctors, and lawyers
Who were the proletariats
90% of France, laborer so, wicked taxed.
What is deficit spending, and what does it cause
When the government spends more money than they have (from taxes), creates lots of debt
What did the bad harvest in 1780 lead to
Starvation of third estate, LET THEM EAT CAKE
Who was the estates general
A body of representatives from all of the estates, kind of like parliament, made list of problems
What were the problems with how voting went
One vote per estate which meant the third estate was always overpowered. Third estate wants it by head, not estate, which , meant that no one saw any movement
What was the tennis cort oath
The government that the third estate made for itself. They speak for France and call themselves the National Assembly. Because of this, Louis 16 sends troops into Paris
What are the four phases of the French Revolution
National Assembly, radical phase, directory, age of Napoleon
When was the National Assembly, and what was happening during the time
1789-1791. There was a massive famine
What was the great fear
When rumors were running wild, peasants target nobles and attack and steal things
National assemble acts
August 4, 1789. Nobles agreed to give up their privileges,
