French Revolution
On July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed this fortress-prison, an event now celebrated as France’s national holiday.
What is the Bastille?
This is the device with which the French decapitated their "enemies"
What is the guillotine?
Napoleon's 1804 legal reforms go by this name.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This word for the political system the Revolution overthrew refers to the pre-1789 order of France, including the monarchy and the three estates.
What is the Ancien Régime?
This was the leader of the Haitian Revolution
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This philosopher believed in equality of educational opportunity for women.
Who is Wollstonecraft?
This government signified the abolition of feudalism in France.
What is the National Assmebly?
This was King Louis XVI's wife. She got beheaded.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This is the country into which Napoleon had a catastrophic invasion.
What is Russia?
This term names the wave of mob killings in Paris prisons in early September 1792, when over a thousand inmates, including priests and nobles, were executed without proper trials.
What are the September Massacres?
This estate consisted of the clergy.
What is the first estate?
This explorer's crew were the first to circumnavigate (go all the way around) the world
Who is Magellan?
This group of radical reformers, led by Robespierre, took power during the French Revolution.
Who are the Jacobins?
This man, nicknamed the "incorruptible", let the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Robespierre?
This is the battle that Napoleon lost causing him to be exiled to St. Helena.
What is Waterloo?
This was the location of Napoleon's first exile.
What is Elba?
Napoleon made peace with this group, which the French revolutionaries thought was out of touch and antiquated.
What is the Catholic Church?
This philosopher thought that power should be split amongst 3 branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
This promise was made by a meeting of the 3 Estates to write a constitution for France. This took power from the king and gave it to the estates.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This woman assassinated a prominent journalist
Who is Charlotte Corday?
This was the way in which Napoleon waged economic warfare against the British.
What is the Continental System?
This term referred to a wealthy class of scholars/merchants.
What is bourgeoise?
This means you are spending more money that you are making.
What is deficit spending?
This mountain, in present day Bolivia, was (and still is!) a big place where people mined a lot of silver.
What is Potosi/the mountain that eats men?
These were the three main ideals of the revolution
What are liberty, equality, and fraternity?
This radical journalist was assassinated in the bath.
Who is Marat?
Napoleon was welcomed back in France because of this leaders ineffective leadership.
Who is Louis XVIII?
This is the French word for someone that left their country due to political reasons
What is an emigre?
This radical Jacobin leader, known as “the Orator of the People,” was Robespierre’s rival and was guillotined in April 1794 alongside his followers.
Who is Danton?
This philosopher believed the government derives its power from the consent of the governed.
Who is Locke?