Causes
The King of France at the time of the Revolution.
Who was Louis XVI?
This violent attack by the people of France on July 14, 1789 signaled the start of the French Revolution.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
This egalitarian device was used in 1792 to execute King Louis XVI and was last used in France to execute a prisoner in 1977.
What was the guillotine? (AKA, "the national razor")
The name for the French middle class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
Napoleon’s invasion of this country proved to be his downfall.
What is Russia?
Queen of France at the time of the Revolution.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
Cause and outcome of the Women's March on Versailles.
What was lack bread/ hunger (cause) and the king and his family returned to Paris and never saw Versailles again (outcome)?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Napoleon sold this land to the United States to finance his campaigns in Europe.
What is the Louisiana Territory (Louisiana Purchase)?
One of Napoleon's greatest accomplishments is his longest lasting legacy, giving the Third Estate legal rights.
What is the Code Napoleon? (Napoleonic Law Code)
When a government spends more than it takes in.
What is deficit spending?
"We swear that we will meet until a constitution is established."
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The number of French people killed during the Reign of Terror.
What is 30,00 - 40,000?
Number of men in the Directory
What is five (5)?
This was an attempt by Napoleon to wage economic war against Great Britain; it called for all nations under French control to stop trade with Great Britain.
What was the Continental System?
Members of the three estates.
What are 1) the clergy, 2) the nobles, 3) everyone else?
Equal rights before the law, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion were some of the protections put forth in this document of the French Revolution.
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Maximilien Robespierre
Who was the head of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?
He fought along George Washington in the American Revolution and also helped to create the current French flag (tricolor).
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
The site of Napoleon's last battle - Napoleon's final loss.
What is Waterloo?
He was the Financial Adviser loved by the French people.
Who was Jacques Necker?
This political faction sat on the left of the Legislative Assembly.
Who were the Jacobins (or radicals)?
This was the end of the radical stage of the French Revolution.
What was the execution of Robespierre?
The four countries that went to war with France during Napoleon's rule (1799-1815)
What are Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia?
Napoleon's final place of exile.
What is the island of St. Helena?