Revolutionary Ideas
This event most heavily impacted the leaders of the French Revolution
What is the American Revolution?
This leader's imperialistic and militaristic ideas brought stability and order to France during the Revolution
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
People who were safe from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
Who is no one?
During the French Revolution, there were many ______ which were insurrections against the government.
What is coups?
This % of the French population made up the Third Estate
What is 98%?
What is the Enlightenment?
This character trait most heavily impacted the demise of King Louis XVI
What is indecisiveness?
These 3 things put France into economic trouble
What is: Versailles and nobility were expensive, aiding the American Revolution, and natural disasters that impacted the cost of grain?
What the Radicals did when they took over the Legislative Assembly
What is guillotine King Louis XVI?
It had been __________ years since the last Estates General meeting
What is 175?
What the American and French Revolutions had in common
What is creating a government that protects human rights?
This person was responsible for writing the extremely radical newspaper "Friend of the People" that advocated for revolutionaries taking violent measures to get what they wanted.
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
The statement that accurately depicts the tax system during the Ancien Regime (Old Order) is:
Only peasants and clergy paid taxes
Only 2% of nobility paid taxes
The nobility paid taxes only on land
The members of the Third Estate paid almost all the taxes
What is The members of the Third Estate paid almost all the taxes?
This is how the Moderates and Radicals differed
What is:
Moderates: wanted to keep King Louis as constitutional monarch and did not condone extreme violence.
Radicals: wanted to abolish the monarchy and saw violence as necessary
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The most corrupt part of the Estates General meeting
What is Unfair voting/ outvoting the Third Estate?
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
These ideas are based on: class privileges, checks and balances, natural rights, or universal suffrage.
What is natural rights?
This group of Radical Revolutionaries wanted to kill the king
Who were the Jacobins?
This is the type of government Napoleon created in France after rising to power
What is dictatorship?
The most significant reason why the storming of the Bastille is important was
What is because it was a symbol of power of the Old Regime?
This phase of the revolution led to the Reign of Terror
What is the Radical phase?
This is how other European countries felt about the French Revolution
What is scared of revolutionary ideas spreading?
This group of Moderate Revolutionaries DID NOT want to kill the king
Who were the Girondins?
The reason why the French hated Marie Antoinette
What is Austrian/ foreigner, increased debt/ luxurious living, and disloyal to King Louis/ not modest.
This group was responsible for forcing Robespierre out of power, thus ending the Reign of Terror with his execution on the guillotine.
Who were his fellow revolutionaries who thought he took things too far?
This is the reason why many women marched upon Versailles
What is fighting King Louis XVI due to the lack of food and expensive grain?