Key Players
The king of France during the French Revolution. (correct roman numerals are needed)
Who is King Louis XVI?
Peasants paid heavy ___ to pay for war debt.
What are taxes?
A large fortress stormed by a mob to free prisoners and gain weapons.
What is the Bastille?
The ____ estate consisted of the nobility.
What is the 2nd?
Women in France blamed this royal person for France's problems.
Who is Queen Marie Antoinette?
The radical Jacobin lawyer responsible for killing King Louis XVI.
Who is Robespierre?
"The divine right of kings"
What is absolutism?
An invention intended to be a more humane method of execution.
What is the guillotine?
When the 3rd estate met in a tennis court, they swore this oath to create constitution and abolish the monarch.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A mob of women stormed this palace to confront the King and Queen.
What is Versailles?
The queen of France during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The war between the French and English in which France lost colonial possessions.
What is the 7 Years War?
A lawyer who was executed for being too radical.
Who is Robespierre?
The finance minister during the financial crisis in France.
Who is Jacques Necker?
The mob of women marched the royal family to this city to be prisoners.
What is Paris?
The radical journalist who spent his life in a bathtub.
Marat
The estate that consists of the clergy.
What is the 1st estate?
King Louis XVI was convicted of ___ and sentenced to be executed.
What is treason?
This declaration was adopted by the National Assembly and included Enlightenment ideals.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
The document written by Olympe de Gouges to give women more rights.
The Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen.
The man who takes power in France after the French Revolution. He is famous for victory in the war with Austria.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A movement that created new ideas about society and government, including rights of freedom and speech.
What is the Enlightenment?
The time period between July 1793- July 1794 in which thousands are executed via guillotine (including Marie Antoinette and Robespierre).
What is the Reign of Terror?
The meeting in which each estate received one vote.
The mob of women did this to the palace guards when they stormed the palace of Versailles.
What is decapitated them?