The National Assembly
This group abolished feudal privileges of the First and Second Estates on the night of August 4, 1789.
What is the National Assembly?
The National Assembly took over this institution’s land to help pay France’s debts.
What is the Catholic Church?
This 1791 document created a limited constitutional monarchy.
What is the Constitution of 1791?
These two countries were the first to declare war on revolutionary France.
What are Austria and Prussia?
This radical leader became head of the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This document declared that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Church officials were required to be __________ and paid as state officials.
What is elected?
The new legislative body created by that constitution.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
This battle in 1792 gave France an early victory and boosted morale.
What is the Battle of Valmy?
Robespierre wanted to build a “republic of ________.”
What is virtue?
The slogan adopted by revolutionaries was “________, ________, ________.”
What is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?
Many French peasants opposed the reforms to the Church because they were devoted to this.
What is Catholicism (or their faith/the pope)?
Radicals, moderates, and conservatives in the Legislative Assembly sat in different parts of this.
What is the meeting hall (or the assembly hall)?
This radical journalist called for the death of all who supported the king.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
The Reign of Terror lasted roughly from 1793 to this year.
What is 1794?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was influenced by this American document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This king tried to flee France in 1791 but was caught near the border.
Who is Louis XVI?
These nobles fled France and wanted to restore the Old Regime.
Who are the émigrés?
The king was executed using this device on January 21, 1793.
What is the guillotine?
About how many people were executed during the Reign of Terror?
What is around 40,000?
This writer’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman was rejected, and she was later executed.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
Louis XVI’s attempted escape made him look disloyal and helped seal this fate.
What is his execution (death by guillotine)?
This group of working-class Parisians wore long pants instead of knee breeches.
Who are the sans-culottes?
This lawyer and revolutionary, known for his devotion to the poor, was later executed himself.
Who is Georges Danton?
The Reign of Terror ended when this man was executed on July 28, 1794.
Who is Robespierre?