Terms
Sans Culottes
What is common workers (people who don't wear fancy pants)
Number of estates are there in the Old Regime/France.
What is Three Estates?
Last Queen of France. Hated. Might/might not have loved cake.
Who is Marie Antoinette.
Type of government at the beginning of Louis XVI's reign.
What is absolute monarchy.
Napoleon's last battle.
What is Waterloo?
Reign of Terror
What is about a year during the French Revolution where Robespierre/French Government kills lots of people/political killings
The French Middle Class
What is the Bourgeoisie.
Died in a bathtub. Turned into a Martyr.
Wrote kill lists and published them in his newspaper. Always wanted more and more people to die.
Who is Marat?
Big cause of the French Revolution. Think Bread Riots. Hunger. American Revolution. Madame Deficit.
Economic Problems
A symbol of the oppressive government/feudal past.
What is the Bastille.
(What are the people trying to get from the Bastille?)
Emigres
What are people from the noble class who fled France during the Revolution.
Amount of population in the 3rd estate.
What is 97%
Lead the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre.
Ideas that influenced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen that emphasized natural rights/Locke (One of the causes of the French Revolution)
What is the Enlightenment?
What is the Scorched Earth Policy?
The most radical group within the National Assembly.
What are Jacobins?
Estate that pays most all of the taxes.
What is the 3rd estate.
Before he died, this person said: My only regret is that I am going before that Rat Robespierre
Name of the weak ruler that leads to the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI
Part of the Legacy of the French Revolution.
What is inspired people to fight for their rights in other parts of the world.
Napoleon gained power over the Directory in France using this method.
What is a coup d'etat?
At the Estates General, the 3rd Estate decides to leave and take this oath.
What is the Tennis Court Oath.
Napoleon abdicated here.
What is Elba?
The rights outlined by in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens did not extend to this group.
Who are women?
The Great Fear starts when this happens.
What is the fall of the Bastille?