Government
Place the following in order: National Convention, Directory, Legislative Assembly, National Assembly, Estates General
Estates General, National Assembly, Legislative Assembly, National Convention, Directory
The Night of August Fourth
Document written by the National Assembly guaranteeing the rights and securities of all Frenchmen.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Which King called the Estates General? To deal with what sort of crisis? In what year?
Louis XVI, Financial, 1789
The 9-12 member executive body set up by the National Convention.
The Committee of Public Safety
What event virtually guaranteed that the Constitutional Monarchy would not survive?
The King's Flight to Varennes
The "architect" of the Great Terror who saw a relationship between fear and virtue.
Robespierre
This document subordinated the Catholic Church to the French government and required a clerical oath.
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The name of the revolutionary currency that quickly experience rampant inflation.
Assignats
Set up by the National Convention to administer quick justice for any suspected of treason AND the name for those sent into the countryside to instill the values of the revolution.
Revolutionary Tribunals; Deputies on Mission
The name for the violent wave of attacks on Parisian prisons to rid the country of those deemed to be traitors.
The September Massacres
The notoriously radical element within the Paris Commune comprised mostly poorer workers.
The Sans-Culotte
This document established France as a constitutional monarchy with a unicameral legislature AND the government that wrote it.
Constitution of 1791 by National Assembly
A "religion" created within the Revolution to instill civic virtue.
The Cult of the Supreme Being
The local government of Paris responsible for radicalizing the Revolution by marching on the Legislative Assembly and the King's palace.
The Paris Commune
The name of the prison that fell to the Parisian mob, the date it did, and the name for the peasant unrest in the countryside that followed this event.
Bastille, July 14, 1789, The Great Fear
The name for political and religious refugees who sought asylum in other countries.
The Emigres.
Levee en Masse
The law that helped launch the "Great Terror" within the "Reign of Terror," virtually guaranteeing unjust trials for the accused.
Law of 22 Prairial
Name two things the National government did to restore order in France after the "Reign of Terror."
Removed radicals from Paris, allowed freedom of worship, made peace with many countries, called for a new government to form, removed price restrictions on goods.
What is the name of the journee that ended the "Great Terror" and the name of the period of violent revenge that sought to punish those who orchestrated it across France?
9 Thermidor (Thermidorian Reaction), White Terror
Girondists and the Montagnards
Name two things the French government did to rationally reconstruct French society. These should be specific.
Redrew the map of political districts, applied uniform legal codes in all districts, imposed the metric system, provided a new calendar.
Counter-revolutionary activities in this region of France had to be put down violently, amounting to a bloody civil war.
The Vendee