Causes of the Revolution
This social system divided France into three unequal groups.
What are the Three Estates?
The French Revolution began in this year.
What is 1789?
He was the king of France when the Revolution began.
Who is Louis XVI?
This invention became the symbol of execution during the Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
This document outlined equality and citizens’ rights in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This estate paid nearly all the taxes but had the least power.
What is the Third Estate?
The Revolution began when Parisians stormed this prison.
What is the Bastille?
She was his unpopular queen, famous for overspending.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This committee was formed to protect the Revolution from enemies.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
After the monarchy fell, this form of government replaced it.
What is the Republic?
France was ruled by this type of government before 1789.
What is an absolute monarchy?
Members of the Third Estate swore this famous oath after being locked out.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
He led the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
The Reign of Terror aimed to defend the Revolution by doing this.
What is executing enemies?
The Revolution reduced the power of this long-dominant institution.
What is the Church?
France’s money troubles came mainly from wars and royal spending, creating this.
What is national debt?
This document declared that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Famous Enlightenment thinker believed the natural good will of humans is destroyed by government and society
Rousseau
Became the nickname for the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
What is the National Barber
France adopted this type of measurement system to replace old royal standards.
What is the metric system?
Thinkers like Rousseau and Locke inspired the Revolution with these ideas.
What are natural rights?
Angry women marched to this royal palace to demand bread.
What is Versailles?
This radical journalist wrote L’Ami du Peuple and was murdered in his bath.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
The Terror ended when this man was executed in 1794.
Who is Robespierre?
The Revolution ended this rigid class system that divided people by birth.
What is the Estates System?