Ideas
Age of Enlightenment
What is movement emphasizing reason, individualism, skepticism, and science.
Louis XIV
Who is King of France from 14 May 1643 till 1715
Committee on Public Safety
What is protecting the republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion
The storming of the Bastille
What is a state prison attacked by an angry and aggressive mob
Third Estate
What is working class before the French Revolution
Absolute monarchy
What is Form of monarchy in which the monarch holds supreme authority.
Marie Antoinette
Who is the last Queen of France before the French Revolution
Guillotine
What is carrying out executions by beheading.
Jacobins
what is get rid of any traces of the old social order so they seized nobles' lands and abolished their titles
Estates General
What is legislative assembly of the different classes of French subjects
National Assembly
What is a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General
Maximilen Robespierre
what is leading member of the Committee of Public Safety and encourage the execution by guillotine
The Directory
What is five-member committee in the French First Republic
Reign of Terror
What is french people who did not support the revolution were executed at the guillotine.
Tennis Court Oath
What is theFrench Third Estate vowing "not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established"
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
What is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is French statesman and military leader
Napoleonic Wars
What is series of conflicts with the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon
“Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity”
What is the national motto of France
The Congress of Vienna
What is meeting of ambassadors of European states
Battle of Waterloo
What is Napoleon's forces were defeated by the British and Prussians, marked the end of his reign
Louisiana Purchase
What is acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France