French Revolution

2. A representative assembly called by Louis XVI to address the financial crisis; it exposed deep divisions between estates.
4. Writing structure for paragraphs: Point, Evidence, Explain, Link.
7. In PACMoRU, this refers to how trustworthy or biased a source may be.
10. A vow by the National Assembly to keep meeting until a new constitution was written.
13. In PEEL, where you unpack how your evidence supports the argument or inquiry question.
14. In PACMoRU, this measures how valuable a source is for answering a specific historical question.
16. The viewpoint or position of a person or group in a historical context; essential for PACMoRU analysis.

1. A system in which the king held total power, justified by divine right.
3. The estate that carried the tax burden and made up the majority of France’s population.
5. An intellectual movement that emphasised reason, equality, and individual rights, inspiring revolutionary ideas.
6. Acronym for analysing historical sources: Purpose, Audience, Context, Message, Reliability, Usefulness.
8. In PEEL writing, the concrete support (quote, statistic, or source detail) that backs your point.
9. Years of war, royal extravagance, and poor harvests that left France deeply in debt by 1789.
11. The rigid class structure of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commoners.
12. Formed by the Third Estate after being locked out of the Estates-General, claiming to represent the French people.
15. The final step of a PEEL paragraph that connects back to the question or thesis.