French Revolution

5. allows business to operate with little or no government interference
6. After weeks of voting issues, the 3rd Estate assembled their own legislative body
9. Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
11. Working class men and women who pushed the revolution into more radical action
14. A revolutionary political club within the new Legislative Assembly made up of middle-class lawyers or intellectuals
17. rights that belong to all humans from birth
18. A grim fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners
19. Lasted 10 months; Revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials that put to death many citizens accused of resisting the revolution

1. Division of society into: nobles (1st), clergy (2nd), and peasants/commoners (3rd)
2. thinkers; held new ideas about society
3. A fast-falling blade that extinguished life instantly; introduced by Dr. Joseph Guillotin as a more humane method (really?) of beheading than the uncertain ax
4. A period of intellectual awakening leading up to the French Revolution, a time of questioning traditional thought and social organizations
7. An agreement by which people give up their freedom for an organized society
8. The legislative body consisting of representatives of the three estates
10. Occurs when a government spends more money than it takes in
12. The old order: everyone in France was divided into one of three social classes (estates)
13. A promise to “never separate and to meet wherever…, until we have a…constitution”
15. refers to the middle-classes of the cities, prosperous bankers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and professors.
16. leader of the Jacobins; responsible for the Reign of Terror