Prelude
Uprising
Spell it!
Politics
Grab Bag
100
This group made up the First Estate
What is the Clergy
100
This person responded to a warning to curve monarchy power and money by telling the peasants of France "let them eat cake"
Marie Antoinette
100
Name for a entire class of people in France. There are a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Spell it!
What is Estate
100
Type of government France had before the revolution
What is a monarchy
100
The 10 year period from 1789-1799 in France is called
What is the French Revolution
200
This group made up the Second Estate?
What is Nobles
200
The estate that made up 98% of the population and paid all the taxes.
What is the third estate
200
New title to French people of all classes. Spell it!
What is citizen?
200
The name given to a form of government where people elect representatives who establish laws for the country
What is a Republic
200
The palace where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived when the revolution started
What is Versailles
300
Rising Bread Prices, debt, war, social class system, unfair taxes -- the Third Estate was angered by the government system. As a result, they demanded the king call a meeting of the ___________ _____________ so per might be shared beyond the king and nobles.
What is Estates General
300
Ten-month period of brutal repression when some 40,000 individuals were executed as enemies of the French Revolution.
What is Reign of Terror
300
This violent event in Paris on July 14, 1789 started the French Revolution. Peasants stormed this prison/armory, killed the guards and stole the weapons. Spell it!
What is the Storming of the Bastille
300
The government of France following the coup that overthrew the Directory and created an executive branch of three
What is The Consulate/3 Consuls
300
Purpose of the first constitution instigated by the National Assembly
What is limit the power of the monarchy,
400
The location where the 3rd estate vowed "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the constitution of the kingdom is established"
What is tennis court/tennis court oath
400
This small group, led by Robespierre, oversaw the Reign of Terror. They used the Guillotine quite frequently against enemies of the revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety
400
A new invention that becomes "the engine of terror." Spell it!
What is the guillotine?
400
A five-member committee which governed France as an executive branch of government and enforced the laws of the revolution, until it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is The Directory
400
Napoleon established a more fair way to collect
What is taxes
500
Name 2 reasons why the French Government was in so much debt.
A. War with Great Britain
B. Lavish spending by the King & Queen
C. They helped the United States in the Revolutionary war
500
The three parts to the French motto
What are liberty, equality, and fraternity?
500
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety; chief architect of the Reign of Terror. He used the guillotine as a tool for the revolution. His name was? Spell it!
Maximilian Robespierre
500
This was a radical group in the French Revolution. People in this group used the guillotine way too much in the Reign of terror.
What is the Jacobins
500
Name an event that caused Napoleon's empire to crumble.
What are:
1. Invasion of Russia
2. The Battle of Waterloo
3. Continental System (trade limitations)