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