People
Events
Ideas
Big ideas?
Miscellany
100
Lawyer turned leader of the Jacobins and the Great Terror
Who is Robespierre?
100
This quote's place...."We are are the nation and we refuse to stop meeting, until we have written a constitution."
What is the Tennis Court Oath
100
In France this replaced monarchy as a form of government by 1792.
What is a republic?
100
A deficit crisis kicked off the revolution; this is the word for taxation and spending policy.
What is a fiscal policy (crisis)?
100
Without proper britches, in French?
What is sans culotte?
200
The King of France to 1792
Who is Louis 16th?
200
This place was destroyed by the sans culotte citizens of Paris.
What is the Bastille?
200
This would be contained in a cahier brought to the Estates General Meeting in May 1789?
What is a petition or complaint of a political nature?
200
The death of this revolutionary publisher sparks even more terror.
Who is Jean Marat?
200
Royal callousness: "Let them..."
What is 'eat cake'
300
Publisher of revolutionary "L'Amis du Peuple" (Friend of the People)
Who is Jean Marat?
300
Fish monger women marched here in October, 1789
What is versailles?
300
What island nation was at war with revolutionary France by 1793?
What is Great Britain?
300
France as a republic is stable under this five-man government, but still at war.
What is the Directory government?
300
The sugar island for France?
What is St. Domingue, or Haiti?
400
Marie Antoinette's royal cousin
What is King Leopold of Austria?
400
In this year a new Civil Constitution was written that put the state in charge of the Church.
What is 1792?
400
Some Jacobins believed in this as a means to stop counter-revolution.
What is terror?
400
The three colors of the French flag
What is red, white, and blue?
400
Beheaded woman who argued for female political rights
Who is Olympe de Gouge?
500
He 'royally' threatens the Revolutionary government with destruction if even one hair on Louis's head is cut.
Who is the Duke of Brunswick?
500
In this year Napoleon Bonaparte effectively ended the revolution.
What is 1799?
500
Many in the Girondin faction in the National Convention did not want to execute the King. This is the kind of government they wanted.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
500
This big "ISM" is the outcome of the revolution
What is nationalism?
500
As a class: privileged and religiously educated in the Ancien Regime
What is the First Estate?
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