Vocabulary
Famous People
The Monarchy
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
100
French middle class
What is the bourgeoisie?
100
The queen who was rumored to have said "Let them eat cake!"
Who was Marie Antoinette?
100
The husband of Marie Antoinette
Who was Loius XVI?
100
The total number of people who died in the Reign of Terror
What is 17,000 by guillotine, 40,000 total?
100
The name of Napoleon's love?
Who was Josephine?
200
Method for carrying out executions during the Reign of Terror
What is the guillotine?
200
One of the main leaders in the Reign of Terror
Who was Robespierre?
200
In France's old order, the clergy belonged to this estate
What is the first estate?
200
The Declaration of Man and the Citizen was modeled after this famous document
What is the United States Constitution?
200
The main countries that Napoleon did NOT conquer
What are Britain and Russia?
300
Popular vote by ballot
What is plebiscite?
300
Developed the Napoleonic Code
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
300
Louis XVI dismissed his financial advisor, Jaques Necker, because he proposed this reform
What is taxing the clergy and nobles?
300
The National Assembly voted to pay off debt by doing this
What is selling church lands?
300
The war tactic that helped the Russians defeat Napoleon
What is scorched-earth policy?
400
The old order in which France was divided into 3 social classes
What is ancien regime?
400
Executed for demanding equal rights for French women
Who was Olympe de Gouges?
400
Three reasons there was a French Revolution
What are deficit spending, poor economy, rising food prices, overspending, failed reforms? (any combo of these will do!)
400
Group of laws reflecting Enlightenment principles
What is the Continental System?
400
How the Congress of Vienna promoted the idea of legitimacy
What is restoring hereditary monarchies to their thrones?
500
War tactic involving hit-and-run raids
What is guerrilla warfare?
500
When the National Convention met in 1992, they formed this kind of government
What is republic?
500
Compare and contrast the Jacobins and the sans-culottes
What is Jacobins were middle class radicals and sans-culottes were poor rebels?
500
The way which nationalism helped and hurt Napoleon
What is nationalism made the French love him and everyone else hate him?
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