The Estates System and Revolution Causes
The Beginning of the Revolution
Napoleon and the Reign of Terror
Congress of Vienna
Revolutions in Europe and Latin America
100
This estate in France payed only 2% of the taxes.
What was the Clergy?
100
On June 17, 1789 this group was formed by members of the third estate in order to unify themselves.
What was the National Assembly?
100
This person was the leader of a time of fear and confusion for France later known as the Reign of Terror.
Who was Robespierre?
100
This principle was one of the main goals of the Congress of Vienna and made sure that the countries that Napoleon had conquered would have their monarchies restored.
What is Legitimacy?
100
This native venezuelan was a leader in the revolutions in Latin America and declared Venezuela’s independence from spain in 1811.
This native venezuelan was a leader in the revolutions in Latin America and declared Venezuela’s independence from spain in 1811.
200
This group in France made up 97% of the population but only owned 70% of the land.
What is the Third Estate?
200
During the Great Fear in October 1789, thousands of Parisian women rioted over the rising cost of this food.
What is The Women’s March on Versailles?
200
This naval battle in 1805 was one of Napoleon’s only defeats.
What is The Battle of Trafalgar?
200
Late in 1815, Czar Alexander I, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and King Frederick William III of Prussia signed this agreement in order to combat the forces of the revolution.
What was the Holy Alliance?
200
These people were at the top of the Spanish-American society.
Who are Peninsulares?
300
The French Revolution was partly inspired by this revolution that took place several years before.
What is the American Revolution?
300
This holiday, celebrated on July 14 in France, is a symbolic act of revolution for many people.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
300
This code gave France a uniform set of laws and eliminated many injustices.
What is Napoleonic Code?
300
In what would later be known as the Concert of Europe, this man made proposals that would unite European nations against any revolutions.
Who was Klemens von Metternich?
300
These people couldn’t hold high political power, but could rise as officers.
Who are the Creoles?
400
In addition to high taxes and bad weather impacting crop growth, the lavish spending of these two Royals crippled France’s economy.
Who are King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette?
400
This leading spokesman for the third estate suggested that they unify and form their own group.
Who is Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes?
400
This extremist group took control of France in September 1792.
Who were the Jacobins?
400
This began to spread in Italy, Germany, Greece, and to other areas that the Congress of Vienna had put under foreign control.
What is Nationalism?
400
Nearly 500,000 enslaved Africans worked on French plantations in this country.
What is Haiti?
500
In 1789, the French king chose to solve his money problems by taxing the second estate more. But then, the second estate forced him to call this assembly together where they would all vote on it.
What was the Estates-General?
500
In what would later be known as this Oath, the National Assembly created a new constitution for the French people.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
500
Before he became the ruler of France, Napoleon led his men through many expeditions. While defeating his enemies in Europe was easy, his expedition to this non-European country failed.
What is Egypt?
500
39 German states unified into this confederacy during the Congress of Vienna.
What is the German Confederation?
500
Most of the Revolutions in Latin America were led by a joint cooperation of these two men.
Who are Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin?
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