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| He started a revolution in Mexico to improve living conditions, abolish slavery, and give all men the right to vote. |
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| Wealthy Venezuelan creole, helped liberate countries in South America. |
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| This group was of African and European ancestry and had no wealth, power or status. |
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| Were considered second class citizens, born of Spaniards in Latin America, had wealth, status and power. |
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| This group was considered to be at the top of the social classes, born in Spain, dominated political and social life, and were the only ones who could hold jobs in government and church. This group also had wealth, status and power. |
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| The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy could not live off the land. |
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| A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon. |
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| The period, from mid-1793 through mid-1794, when Maximilian Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
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| A machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution. |
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| A French congress with the power to create laws and approve declarations of war, established by the constitution of 1791. |
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| A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. |
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| . A pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. |
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| A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
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| An assembly of representatives from all three estates, or social classes in France. |
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| Queen of France during the French Revolution, considered an over spender and was very unpopular with the people. |
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| . Was considered a weak leader/ monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was easy bored with affairs of the state and was an over spender. |
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| In the 1700s this was the social and political system of France, under this system there was three estates. |
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