Old Regime & Causes
This system divided France into three social classes
What is the Estate System (Ancien Régime)
This phase created a constitutional monarchy
What is the Liberal Phase
Leader of the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre
This document declared rights like liberty and equality
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This legal code created equality before the law for men
What is the Code Napoleon
This estate paid the most taxes and had the least political power
What is the Third Estate
This phase included mass executions and extreme radicalism
What is the Radical Phase
Radical journalist assassinated in his bathtub
Who is Jean-Paul Marat
This document argued that women should have equal rights
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman
This agreement restored relations with the Catholic Church
What is the Concordat of 1801
This rising middle class pushed for political reform and more power
What is the bourgeoisie
This event forced the royal family from Versailles to Paris
What is the March on Versailles
More moderate revolutionary executed during the Terror
Who is Georges Danton
This created a limited monarchy in France
What is the Constitution of 1791
This meeting aimed to restore stability after Napoleon’s defeat
What is the Congress of Vienna
Economic hardship in France was worsened by this basic food becoming too expensive
What is bread
This prison was stormed in 1789, symbolizing revolution
What is the Bastille
French general who became emperor after the revolution
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
This oath united the Third Estate in creating a constitution
What is the Tennis Court Oath
This principle restored monarchs to power in Europe
What is legitimacy
This meeting of all three estates sparked the revolution in 1789
What is the Estates-General
This period of mass executions was led by radicals
What is the Reign of Terror
Leader of the Haitian Revolution against French control
Who is Toussaint Louverture
This radical group supported executing the king and removing religion from politics
Who are the Jacobins
Austrian leader who shaped the Congress of Vienna and promoted conservatism
Who is Klemens von Metternich