Social Classes
France
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France 3
France 4
100
He was the king of France when the French Revolution broke out.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
It is the type of government that France had prior to the revolution.
What is absolute monarchy?
100
People of Paris raided it on July 14, 1789 looking for gunpowder.
What is the Bastille?
100
It was the fate of King Louis XVI.
What is being beheaded?
100
They were at the base of the feudal social / economic structure.
What are peasants?
200
They are a social class that has power and status by birth.
What is the second estate (nobles)?
200
It is where the king got his power.
What is divine right? (god)
200
It was the palace that King Louis XVI lived in.
What is Versailles?
200
It was the tool used to execute King Louis.
What is the guillotine?
200
It was the economic system established after the French Revolution.
What is capitalism?
300
They are the First Estate.
What is clergy?
300
They are the two international conflicts that France was involved in just before the Revolution.
What is the American Revolution and the 7 Years War?
300
It was the new revolutionary government of France that emerged (came out of) from the Estates General.
What is the National Assembly?
300
It was what Prussia and Austria did after finding that the king had been executed.
What is attack France?
300
They had more political power and economic freedom after the French revolution.
What is the bourgeoisie?
400
They are part of the Third Estate. They make up most of the population of pre-revolutionary France.
What are peasants / workers?
400
It was the most profitable colony in the world and it belonged to France.
What is Saint Domingue?
400
It was a meeting of the three estates that had not happened since 1614.
What is the Estates General?
400
He was one of the leading generals of the new French army.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
It was the year Napoleon declared himself emperor and ended the French Revolution.
What is 1799?
500
They are part of the Third Estate; merchants, business owners other professionals.
What are the bourgeoisie?
500
This social movement involved thinkers who thought you could use reason to improve the human condition.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
These are the four revolutions known as the "Atlantic Revolutions".
What is American, French, Haitian, and Bolivian?
500
It is the famous quote by Napoleon marking the end of the French Revolution.
What is, "The revolution is over, I am the Revolution"?
500
He was chair of the Committee of Public Safety and was responsible for "The Terror" in which counter-revolutionaries were executed by the hundreds.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
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