Reign of Terror
This machine was used to chop of the heads of aristocrats.
What is the guillotine?
The term most associated with Enlightenment ideals.
What is reason?
During this era, Robespierre assassinated many aristocrats by way of the guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The name of the king in power during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
The number of estates in the French government
What is three?
This far-left group was largely responsible for the Reign of Terror.
What are the Jacobins?
The Enlightenment sought to limit the powers of these two types of leaders.
These people, who didn't have fancy pants, helped Robespierre to power.
Who are sans-culottes?
The name of the queen in power during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The estate that broke away in the early stages of the French Revolution.
What is the third estate?
This term justifies hurting or killing people in power in order to gain power.
What is political violence?
This French Enlightenment thinker got himself into trouble for writing satires about people in power.
Who is Voltaire?
The place where Robespierre and his group began their new government.
What is the Paris Commune?
The king and queen were both killed by this machine.
What is the guillotine?
The name of the new governing body that the Third Estate formed.
What is the National Assembly?
This committee carried out the Reign of Terror. Their name is kind of ironic.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote Emile and had a profound influence on the French Revolution.
Who is Rousseau?
The name of the far-left revolutionary group which Robespierre was the head of.
What are the Jacobins?
The name of the place where the king and queen lived.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
After the third estate left the Estates General, they went here and made this commitment.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The Reign of Terror took place in these years.
1792-1794
These three revolution are major Enlightenment revolutions studied today.
What are the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution?
The name of the college which Robespierre attended.
What is the University of Paris?
During the women's march, the queen was quoted as saying this, but she didn't actually say it.
This document, like the Declaration of Independence, served as a foundational document for the new French Republic.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?