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| 1. The First Estate consisted of _____ of the Roman Catholic Church and constituted less than _________ of the population. |
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| 2. The Second Estate consisted of ______________, and made up less than _________ of the population. |
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| 3. The Third Estate consisted of _____ and made up approximately ______ of the population. |
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| 4. The Third Estate was divided up into three groups. They were the _________________, the ______________ was next and at the bottom _________________. |
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| bourgeoise & the sans- culottes (aritsians and laborers)& peasants. |
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| 5. What was the Estate General? |
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| The meeting of all three Estates |
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| 6. What brought about the formation of the National Assembly? What was the National Assembly? |
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| Louis XVI refused to change the voting procedures and locked out the 3rd Estate. The National Assembly was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate |
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| 7. What was the Tennis Court Oath? |
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| The 3rd Estate declares that they would not stop meeting until they had written a constitution for France and had seen it adopted |
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| 8. What did the King do to start the Revolution? What was the reaction of the people of France to this action? |
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| He brought troops outside Paris and Versailles were the National Assembly was meeting. The stormed the Bastille |
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| 9. The National Convention set up the ____________ whose job it was to direct the army in crushing foreign invaders. |
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| Committee of Public Safety |
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| 10. The National Convention established a court called the _________ whose job it was to try “_____________” |
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| Revolutionary Tribunal & enemies of the Revolution |
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