French Revolution
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. first Estate
A. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches
2. poor
B. French general who became emperor of the French
3. second Estate
C. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural)
4. Monarchy
D. People without possessions or wealth
5. third Estate
E. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
6. Revolution
F. People engaged in a particular occupation
7. liberty
G. Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles
8. guillotine
H. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
9. Bread
I. King of France from 1774 to 1792
10. Montesquieu
J. An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority
11. estates general
K. The common people
12. Voltaire
L. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland
13. Napoleon Bonaparte
M. Assembly of the ___ of all France
14. equality
N. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial
15. Louis XVI
O. The quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
16. Marie Antoinette
P. In Christianity, ___ collectively
17. Rousseau
Q. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment
18. clergy
R. The nobility in France and the peerage in Britain
19. fraternity
S. The clergy in France and the heads of the church in Britain
20. Taxes
T. Queen of France who was unpopular