Under the Old Regime, which group was the Third Estate?

A French person in 1789 who was a bishop, abbé, monk, nun, or parish priest belonged to which estate?

In 1789 the Third Estate had 598 deputies, close to the clergy and nobility combined, but the old procedure counted votes by order. What did Third Estate deputies demand?

If the First and Second Estates voted together under the old voting-by-order rule, what problem did the Third Estate face?

An Etréchy grievance list asked to replace the taille and capitation with one tax paid equally by all three orders. What Old Regime issue was it attacking?

Which Old Regime burdens were peasants especially likely to resent before August 1789?

Before the Revolution, venality of office meant some public offices could be bought. Which revolutionary action targeted that Old Regime practice?

Facing a financial crisis and unrest over bread prices, what did Louis XVI decide in August 1788?

Why was the Estates-General's meeting in 1789 politically dramatic?

In the months before the Estates-General opened, what were cahiers de doléances?

The electoral regulation of January 24, 1789 set rules for choosing deputies. What did it do for the Third Estate?

When news spread on July 12, 1789 that Louis XVI had dismissed Jacques Necker, what happened in Paris?

Which condition made the financial crisis feel immediate to many common people in early 1789?

In June 1789 the dispute over voting by order was still deadlocked. What did the Third Estate deputies do on June 17 to break it?

Order these 1789 events: Estates-General opens, National Assembly forms, Tennis Court Oath, storming of the Bastille.

Order these July 1789 events: Necker's dismissal announced, Bastille stormed, Bailly and Lafayette take Paris posts, king received at Hôtel de Ville.

Which sequence correctly places these 1789 events: Bastille, start of the Great Fear, August decrees, Declaration of Rights?

Order these events: Tennis Court Oath, National Constituent Assembly named, Bastille stormed, feudal privileges attacked on August 4.

Which 1789 order is correct: Estates-General opens, National Assembly forms, Declaration of Rights approved, Women's March to Versailles?

Order these 1789 events: Réveillon riots, Estates-General opens, Bastille stormed, Women's March to Versailles.

Which order is correct: abolition of privileges, Declaration of Rights, Women's March, Assembly moves to the Manège in Paris?

Place these late-1789 actions in order: Women's March, Assembly moves into the Manège in Paris, Declaration of Rights, church property put at the nation's disposal.

Which text declared that men are born and remain free and equal in rights and that sovereignty rests in the nation?

Which measure made bishops and parish priests elective, required an oath to the nation, law, and king, and reorganized the French church?

Which document, adopted in September 1791, kept a king as executive but said sovereignty belonged to the nation?

Which 1791 law banned assemblies of workers and artisans of the same trade after guilds had been abolished?

Olympe de Gouges demanded equal civic rights for women in 1791 and later criticized the Montagnards in print. What happened to her during the Terror?

Which constitution, adopted by the Convention but never applied, proposed a single assembly elected by universal male suffrage?

Which document created the Directory, a five-member executive chosen through a two-council legislature?

Which Convention bloc sat on the high left benches, drew support from Jacobins and Cordeliers, and favored a strong centralized republic?

Which Convention group was associated with Brissot and Vergniaud, provincial ties, federalist leanings, and support for war against European monarchies?

Which name described the uncommitted center deputies of the Convention, including many who shifted with events?

Which Paris crowd pressed the Convention in September 1793 for social measures and helped win limits on prices and wages?

On August 10, 1792, which Paris body installed itself at the Hôtel de Ville and directed the attack on the Tuileries?

Which crowd marched from Paris to Versailles on October 5-6, 1789 and forced the royal family to move to Paris?

Which Paris club, more popular in membership than the Jacobins, included Danton, Desmoulins, Hébert, and Marat among its leading figures?

Which abbé published What Is the Third Estate? in January 1789 and argued that the Third Estate was the nation?

Who became commander of the Paris National Guard on July 15, 1789?

Who became the first mayor of Paris on July 15, 1789, the day after the Bastille fell?

Which ruler attempted to flee Paris with his family on the night of June 20-21, 1791, but was intercepted at Varennes?

Who wrote the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen?

Who assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in his bath on July 13, 1793?

Which revolutionary leader challenged the Committee of Public Safety by calling for an end to the Terror and was executed on April 5, 1794?

Which journalist published Le Vieux Cordelier, supported Danton's Indulgents, and was executed on April 5, 1794?

Which general used force against Paris demonstrators on October 5, 1795 and later ended the Directory by coup?

Which assembly abolished the monarchy on September 21, 1792 and founded the First Republic the next day?

After his trial by deputies of the Convention, who was guillotined on January 21, 1793?

Which former queen was executed on October 16, 1793 after imprisonment and trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal?

Created in March 1793 to judge counterrevolutionary cases without appeal, which institution became a central tool of the Terror?

Which committee, created April 6, 1793, became the emergency governing body of the Republic until July 1794?

Which 1793 decree put French citizens in permanent requisition for the armies, sending young men to battle and others to support the war?

Which September 17, 1793 law allowed arrest of people deemed enemies of liberty because of conduct, associations, words, or writings?

Which law of June 10, 1794 broadened charges before the Revolutionary Tribunal and made death the penalty for offenses under it?

What happened in the National Convention on 9 Thermidor Year II (July 27, 1794) that brought the Terror to an end?

After the Thermidorian Convention rejected the never-used 1793 constitution, which regime came into effect in 1795?

Which event ended the Directory on 18 Brumaire Year VIII, November 9, 1799?

Which revolutionary change from August 1789 and later decrees permanently weakened the Old Regime in the countryside?

Which principle from 1789 outlasted the Revolution as a central claim against absolutism?

Which property change tied many purchasers to the Revolution and was later protected even after the Bourbons returned?

Which principle did Article 11 of the August 1789 decrees set for church, civil, and military offices?