Enlightenment
What is reason?
The Ancien Regime was the political and social system of France prior to this event.
What is the French Revolution?
Louis XVI called together this political body to advise him on the financial crisis, even though they hadn't met since 1614.
What is the Estates General?
Catholics opposed the revolutionary government following the implementation of this measure, which undermined papal authority in France.
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
The first act of this governing body was to abolish the monarchy and establish a republic.
What is the National Convention?
The intellectuals of the Enlightenment.
What are Philosophes?
He lost France's empire in the Seven Years' War, allowed ministers and mistresses political power, and enhance the people's disgust of the monarchy.
Who is Louis XV?
These are the first two events of the French Revolution.
What is the National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath?
The famous political club that opposed the early revolution for creating a constitutional monarchy instead of the republic.
Who are the Jacobins?
The moderates in the Convention who wanted to keep the king alive.
Who are the Girondins?
"Dare to know!"
What is the motto of the Enlightenment, as given by Kant?
He married an Austrian princess and made France's financial situation worse.
Who is Louis XVI?
This event saw a mob of Parisians attack and capture a medieval fortress and symbolized the triumph over absolutism.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Austria and Prussia's statement of support for the French monarchy and invitation to European monarchs to join them.
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?
The small group of Convention members who governed France with Robespierre as its leader.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
The belief that God created the universe, but has no involvement in its running.
What is Diesm?
The legal categories of social classes in France.
This is the charter of basic liberties for France that affirmed inalienable rights, destroyed privileges, and restricted the monarchy.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This group wanted France to go to war so France would lose and the Ancien Regime be restored.
Who are the monarchists?
Created to meet France's internal crisis - it consisted of arrests, quick trials, and excessive executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The most important factor in the spread of Enlightened ideas.
What are salons?
France's financial crisis and increasing debt.
What is the direct cause of the French Revolution?
This event forced the royal family to move to Paris and gave more grain to the people.
What is the Women's March on Versailles?
This radical group was the unofficial mob of Parisians who wore long pants of the workers, instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy.
Robespierre's attempt to replace Christianity with a new form of worship of the republic.
What is de-Christianization?