Important People
This person was a radical leader of the Jacobin group who wrote scathing political articles encouraging the Revolution.
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
Estates can be also know as these which rank you...
what are social classes?
This was the machine used to expediate tens of thousands of deaths in France during the Revolution...
What is the guillotine?
This event is noted as the start of the Revolution, occurring on July 14th, 1789...
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Napoleon sought to cripple this nation by cutting off its supply lines, including colonies in Africa- called a CONTINENTAL BLOCKADE...
What is Britain?
This individual refused to work with the Estates General but ultimately had to in order to keep his power, which wasn't his for very much longer.
Who is King Louis XVI?
This group of people pre- revolution made up about 95% of the population in France but had limited rights and were over taxed...
Who is the 3rd Esate?
Olympe De Gouges was sentenced to death by guillotine for her publication demanding people have the right to do this...
What is the right to choose their government?
The Estates General changed their name and constitution under this new title...
What is the National Assembly?
Napoleon was finally defeated at this famous battle...
What is Waterloo?
This individual started and fueled the Reign of Terror during the Revolution.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This group of people marched on Versailles demanding food for their families...
Who are the Women?
This basic right was violated when the Committee of Public Safety pushed the Law of Suspects pushing enemies of the revolution into jail...
What is the right to a fair trial?
This Oath was made by the 3rd Estate as a vow to work together in the new government...
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Napoleon established a rule of law called...
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This individual usurped power from the French government using a coup d'é·tat...
Who is Napoleon?
This group of people were working class members of society who joined the radical Jacobins to further the Revolution's cause.
Who are the sans-culottes ?
This was the name of the government that started the Reign of Terror...
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This new document denoted the changes and protections for people's rights in France...
Napoleon sought to conquer Europe but his one difficulty was in defeating this massive Eastern nation, which used the scorched earth policy to derail his plans...
What is Russia?
This individual was the leader of Austria and the brother of Marie Antoinette, he offered his sister and her family safety but it backfired into war..
Who is Joseph II?
This group of people, made up of white collared workers, thrived off the ideas of the Enlightenment and pushed for the 3rd Estate to revolutionize against the French Government
Who are the bourgeois ?
Finish the quote, " is the order of the day"...
What is Terror ?
Before the Revolution the old order in France was called this...
What is the Ancien Regime?
Napoleon is forced to go to the island of Elba in 1814. What is it called when you are forced to leave your country?
What is exile?