French Revolution
What is the Estates General?
A meeting of the Three Estates of France(Each estate is part of the population)
What year did Napoleon take part in the Coup d'état?
1799
What is the Taille?
An annual direct tax on land or property, that was a regular source of income for the French Monarchy
What were the three major influences for the Declaration of the Rights of Men?
1) English Bill of Rights
2) Declaration of Independence
3) The US Constitution
What is the Paris Commune
The government that overthrew the Legislative Assembly that were a more extreme government that abolished the Monarchy
Bonus 100: Who are the Sans-culottes?
What is bourgeoisie?
The middle class
(Bonus Points 50: What percent of the population were they?)
Was Napoleon French?
No he was born in Corsica
Bonus 50: what were his first 2 languages?
What was the most popular religion of France during the Revolution?
Catholic/ Catholicism
Who came up with the Separation of Powers?
Montesquieu
What were the 2 opposing political factions in the Legislative Assembly?
The Girondins tended to represent areas outside Paris and feared the radical mobs of Paris
The Mountain represented the interests of radicals in Paris, and many belonged to the Jacobins club
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
Where the 3rd Estate was locked out of the Estates General.
They Declared themselves the true representatives of France and that they would make a new Constitution
What year did Napoleon become Emperor?
1804
Bonus 100: Who crowned him Emperor?
What are the Three Estates?
1st Clergy
2nd Nobility
3rd Commonfolk
Who came up with Separation of Church and State?
Voltaire
What is the National Assembly?
The government that replaced the Monarchy
Bonus points 50: What did they initially make the government?
What was the first act of violence in the French Revolution?
On July 14, 1789 the Storming of Fort Bastille
This started the Great Fear
What is Napoleonic Code?
Foundation of Law in France
This made the metric system to improve trade and create consistency
This law organized laws that recognized the legal equality of all French Men
These addressed things such as Personal Liberty, Freedom of religion for Christians and Jews
What was the role of Women under the Revolution?
Women had been active participants in the revolution, although they had no official power
Most women were relegated to making clothing for the war effort and tending to the sick
Bonus 50: What was their role under Napoleon?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
A document assuring rights of French citizens proclaiming that all men were free and equal before the law
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; social distinctions can be established only for the common benefit
Bonus points 50: Were Women included?
What is a Coup d’etat?
A sudden overthrow of a government
What Year was King Louie XVI excecated in the Reign of Terror?
Early 1793
How did Napoleon use Nationalism?
By binding France together by their similarities like culture, language, religion, and more
By having them fight for a common cause and use of Propaganda
What were the two parts of The Council?
The Council
The Elder Council
Bonus 50: How many members were in each part?
Who came up with Natural Rights?
John Locke
Bonus 50: What are the 3 Natural Rights?
Who ran the Committee of Public Safety?
Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre
Bonus 50: Who helped him create and run the Committee of Public Safety?