Important People Before and During Revolution
This man was the king of France at the beginning of the revolution. He enjoyed making locks and was rather uninterested in his country's affairs.
Who was Louis XVI?
This social and political system of France which began in the later 15th century and lasted to 1789. It was made up of three distinct estates.
What was the Old Regime?
This was the most radical group during the French Revolution. Some important members included Maximilien Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat.
What was the Jacobin Club?
This device was created as a way to swiftly and painlessly execute people. It was used often throughout the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen included these three freedoms.
What is freedom of speech, religion, and equal justice?
This woman was the archduchess of Austria who married the king of France. She loved gambling and spent huge amounts of money on luxury items.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
A wave of panic where peasants began to attack noblemen and destroyed legal papers that bound them to feudal dues.
What was the Great Fear?
This was the French government during the revolution that declared an end to the monarchy and beginning of a republic. It was later replaced by The Directory.
What was the National Convention?
These were nobles who fled France and tried to re-establish the monarchy while outside of the country.
Who were emigres?
This was the slogan of revolutionary leaders.
What is "liberty, equality, fraternity"?
This man began the Reign of Terror, a period marked by tens of thousands of French citizens being put to death over fear of being counter-revolutionaries.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
This event was when Parisians attacked and destroyed a prison complex in the center of the city. It is celebrated every year in France on July 14th.
What was the Storming of the Bastille?
This representative assembly was created by the third estate and was later replaced by the Legislative Assembly.
What was the National Assembly?
These were Parisian small shopkeepers and urban workers whose name directly translates to "those without knee breeches."
Who were the sans-culottes?
This was where Louis XVI and his family tried to escape to, but were caught in the process and sealed their fate to execution by guillotine.
What is Austrian Netherlands?
This man was a member of the Jacobin Club, a lawyer, and an outspoken supporter of the poor citizens of Paris. Because he was such an excellent speaker, he was banned from defending himself during his own trial and was executed by the guillotine.
Who was Georges Danton?
This was the event where members of the third estate broke into a tennis court at Versailles and promised to create a written constitution for France.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
This was when nobles and clergymen were killed in French prisons in response to a rumor that spread saying they were planning to break out and bring back the monarchy.
What were the September Massacres?
Those who were more radical and wanted greater changes during the revolution were said to be this...
What is left-wing?
This was the day that Maximilien Robespierre was sent to the guillotine, and thus ending the Reign of Terror.
What was July 28, 1794?
This man was a member of the Jacobin Club and a writer for the newspaper "L'ami Du Peuple". He called on the death of any who supported the monarchy. He himself was stabbed to death while taking a bath.
Who was Jean-Paul Marat?
This was a French representative assembly which could gather at the king's request to discuss issues like taxation or declarations of war.
What was the Estates-General?
This assembly was divided into three sections based on where you were sitting in the building; the left, middle, and right. It also had the right to approve laws, but the king still held executive power.
What was the Legislative Assembly?
Those who were more conservative and wished to preserve the monarchy were said to be this...
What is right-wing?
This is perhaps how many people were executed during the Reign of Terror.
What is 40,000 people?