French Revolution Key Terms

1. People from the Third Estate who broke away from the Estates-General
2. Oath third estate took that they would never disband without proper representation
3. French activist for women's rights
4. French noble councils that regulated the legislation of the king
8. The radical small government in France
9. "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
11. First ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution
13. Consisted of the French Nobility
15. Peasant revolt caused by the draft
18. Body of five directors that held executive power in France
19. Consisted of clergymen and those with the Church
21. Chief tax of France
22. Members of a nation-wide network of political clubs that offered radical solutions to France's problems
23. Location where British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington
24. A French Officer who struck a blow against England in the American Revolution

1. Radical French legislative comprised of Jacobins
5. Established a Consulate, Concordat with the church, and Civil Code.
6. Parisian working people who were hostile to the aristocracy and fiercely republican
7. The middle class
10. Royal armory and state prison
12. The man who ruled France after the First Revolution
14. Consisted of all other than nobility and clergy
16. Main device used to make executions
17. Sans-culottes minister of justice
20. Argued that the Third Estate was more important than the nobility