Napoleon's rule could best be described as this type of government.
What is a dictatorship?
This was the name of the government created by the Third Estate when they demanded more voice in the political process.
What is the National Assembly?
This is the name of the government that started ruling France when the revolution took a radical turn.
What is the National Convention?
This is the name given to the time when Napoleon returned to France to rule in 1815.
What is the Hundred Days?
The French people were suspicious of this woman, because of her Austrian heritage, political influence on Louis XVI and her wild spending.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The National Assembly seized the land of this group and sold it to French Peasants.
What is the Catholic Church?
This was the term for "middle class" in French and was part of the Third Estate.
What is the bourgeoisie?
These groups in France did not have to pay taxes under the Old Regime, which was part of what caused the Revolution.
What is the clergy and nobility?
This group favored domination by Paris and was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
This was the largest and poorest group in France.
What is the peasants?
This was an ideal held by revolutionaries in which all men could vote, regardless of owning property.
What is universal manhood suffrage?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted under this government.
What is the National Assembly?
Under the Old Regime, this is what it was called when all three Estates got together to vote.
What is the Estates General?
France increased its debt through financial aid to this country.
What is the United States?
This was the event in France in which revolutionaries used violence to try to further the ideas of the Revolution, and resulted in the death of an estimated 18,000 people.
What is the Reign of Terror?