Causes of the French Revolution
A majority of the French population belonged to this Estate.
What is the Third Estate.
The National Assembly initially pushed for this form of government.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy.
The dominant person on the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre.
This domestic policy guaranteed equality of all men under the law.
What is the Napoleonic Code (1804)
Argued that human nature is derived from experiences.
Who is John Locke.
In the 1780s, over 50% of France’s annual budget was expended on
What are debt payments.
Popular political club within the Legislative Assembly.
Who are the Jacobins.
The Directory was considered a weak form of this type of government.
What is a dictatorship.
Napoleon's failed system designed to act as an economic blockade against Great Britain.
What was the Continental System.
The movement to fence in fields in order to farm more effectively, at the expense of poor peasants.
What is Enclosure.
The French Monarchy supported this 18th century revolution.
What was the American Revolution.
The laboring poor of Paris.
Who were the sans-culottes.
The Committee on Public Safety attempted to establish this type of economy with egalitarian and social overtones.
What is a planned economy.
Napoleon returned from exile to rule France briefly was known as
What was the Hundred Days.
The study of Latin classics for moral education and insight into human nature during the Renaissance.
What is Humanism.
Paranoia in the countryside that fanned the flames of rebellion in the summer of 1789.
What was the Great Fear.
In 1789, members of the Third Estate swore this famous oath, pledging not to disband until they had written a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath.
The Reign of Terror was directed primarily at
Who were all enemies of the revolutionary government.
The battle that prevented Napoleon’s planned invasion of England was
What was Trafalgar.
Economic policy promoting government intervention to maintain economic strength and power around the world.
What is Mercantilism.
Peasants stormed this Paris prison in July 1789 to gather weapons and gunpowder.
What was the Bastille.
Austria and Prussia issued this declaration that promised to intervene in France after the capture of Louis XVI.
What was the Declaration of Pillnitz.
“Coup of 18 Brumaire” is the name given to this key event at the end of the French Revolution.
Napoleon Bonaparte dissolved this in 1806 to create the German Confederation of the Rhine.
What was the Holy Roman Empire.
This treaty ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia.