Key People
What king was overthrown during the Revolution?
Who is Louis XVI?
What Enlightenment idea influenced revolutionaries?
What is liberty, equality, and fraternity?
What period involved mass executions and fear-driven politics?
What estate paid all the taxes?
What is the Third Estate?
What prison was stormed in July 1789?
What is the Bastille?
Who became emperor after the Revolution and expanded French territory?
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
What document declared men are born free and equal?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
What event forced the royal family to move to Paris?
What is the Women’s March on Versailles?
What group was elected to make laws during the revolution?
What is the Legislative Assembly?
What new government abolished the monarchy?
What is the National Convention?
Who led the Reign of Terror?
Who is Robespierre?
Which Enlightenment philosopher inspired natural rights?
Who is John Locke?
What meeting did the Third Estate break away from forming the National Assembly?
What is the Estates-General?
When did the French monarchy officially fall?
What is 1792?
What island was Napoleon first exiled to in 1814?
What is Elba?
Who was the queen of France during the Revolution?
Who is Marie Antoinette?
What was the Revolution Motto?
What is “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”?
What event involved the king and queen trying to flee France in disguise?
What is the Flight to Varennes?
In what year did France officially become a republic?
What is 1792?
What French revolutionary calendar month shared its name with mass executions?
What is Thermidor?
Who was the revolutionary writer and assassinated in his bathtub?
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
What Enlightenment concept justified the people’s right to completely change their minds about the government?
What is the social contract?
What pledge did the Third Estate make, refusing to disband until they wrote a new constitution?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
What battle ended Napoleon’s rule?
What is The Battle of Waterloo?
What working-class group wore long pants to reject noble fashion?
Who are the sans-culottes?