Pre Revolutionary France
This group made up the First Estate in pre-Revolutionary France
What is the clergy?
This was the symbolic start to the French Revolution
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The name of the tool used to behead counterrevolutionaries
What is the guillotine?
The name given to the chaotic period from 1793-1794 that was marked by suspicion and beheadings
What is the Reign of Terror?
An overthrow of the government
What is a Coup d'Etat?
What percentage of the French population belonged to the Third Estate:
2%. 14%. 58%. 97%
97%
The vow of the National Assembly to keep meeting until a constitution was written
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Big event for King Louis the XVI in 1793
What is he was beheaded?
The Jacobin leader who rose to power in 1793.
Who was Robespierre?
The set of laws created by Napoleon that treated everyone equally
What is the Napoleonic Code?
Why King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General?
What is to address France's debt?
The main cause of the Women's March on Versailles
What is bread shortages or high prices?
The document written by Olympe de Gouges
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the of the Female Citizen?
The Queen of France
Who was Marie Antoinette?
Title Napoleon gave himself after taking power in 1799
What is First Consul?
Main reason France was in debt before the Revolution
What is costly wars, including support for the American Revolution?
This Declaration proclaimed that men are born free and equal in rights
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Working class Parisians who supported radical reforms
Who were the sans-cullotes?
The name of the committee that directed the Revolution in 1793-1794
What is the Committee for Public Safety?
One of the islands to which Napoleon was exiled
Elba Island or St. Helena Island
What the 3rd Estate demanded about voting at the Estates-General
What is voting by head instead of voting by estate?
The motto of the French Revolution
What is Liberté, Égalité, fraternité?
The form of government created by the Constitution of 1791
What is a constitutional monarchy?
The 5 man executive branch that ran France from 1795-1799
What was the Directory?
Battle at which Napoleon was finally defeated
What is Waterloo?