Enlightenment Unit Vocabulary
Week #3
Topic 12.5
1. Type the definition for the following words from the list below.
2. After you have found the definition, put that word in a complete, complex
sentence showing you understand the meaning of the vocabulary word.
REMEMBER TO SEPARATE YOUR DEFINITIONS AND YOUR SENTENCES!!!
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Estate - social classes
Bourgeoisie - middle class
Deficit spending - when the government spends more than it makes
Estates-General - legislative body made up of representatives from the three
estates
5. Tennis Court Oath - oath made by on a tennis court by the Third Estate
6. Bastille - fortress in Paris used as a prison; the Parisians stormed it, starting
the French Revolution
7. Sans-Culottes - members of the working class who made the French
Revolution more radical
8. Jacobins - member of a radical political club during the French Revolution
9. Guillotine - Device used to behead people
10. Congress of Vienna - assembly of European leaders piece Europe back
together
1. The three estates were extremely unequal, causing everyone from the third estate to
pay taxes but have little say in government.
2. The Bourgeoisie made up the upper part of the third estate; these people had higher
paying jobs, but still had no say in government.
3. I am a culprit of deficit spending, especially when I see a boxed set of a book series
that I really want to read.
4. The Estates-General was how the third estate was able to have a voice in the
government.
5. Because of the Tennis Court Oath, King Louis XVI ordered the first and second
estates to combine with the third.
6. The start of the French Revolution can be marked by the storming of Bastille in
Paris.
7. The Sans-Culottes got their name because they wore longer pants instead of the
short cutoffs that nobility would wear.
8. The threats that the Jacobins and the Sans-Culottes gave scared the nobility.
9. The killer tied his victims down and smashed their hands to pieces with a hammer,
and finally killed them using his hand-made guillotine.
10. The Congress of Vienna was to hopefully restore Europe to its unity and prosperity.