The National Assembly
The French Republic
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robespierre's Reign of Terror
Miscellaneous
100
The ruler that the National Assembly existed under.
Who is King Louis XVI?
100
The body that declared the end of the monarchy and the beginning of a republic.
What is the National Convention?
100
The governing body that preceded Napoleon.
What is the Directory?
100
The most notable man executed in Robespierre's Reign of Terror, also the leader of France at the time.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
The most common cause of death for those executed in the Reign of Terror.
What is by guillotine?
200
The system of government that the National Assembly formally removed.
What is feudalism?
200
The ruler which the National Convention beheaded.
Who is King Louis XVI?
200
The type of ruler (e.g. president) Napoleon was.
What is a dictator or emperor?
200
The mechanism used to kill many people during the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
200
The holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille.
What is Bastille Day?
300
The document that the National Assembly created that stated men are born equal and remain equal before the law. This document also granted freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion, and it guaranteed the right to take part in government and the right to a fair trial, among other things.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
300
The group which controlled the National Convention.
Who are the Jacobins?
300
The man who took the throne after the first fall of Napoleon.
Who is Louis XVIII?
300
The man credited with leading the Reign of Terror
Who is Maxilmilien de Robespierre?
300
The name of the republic that formed after the abolishment of feudalism and the monarchy.
What is Republic of France?
400
The year the National Assembly was formed. (This is also the year the French Revolution began.)
What is 1789?
400
The name of the new government created under the National Convention.
What is the Directory?
400
The two nations that ultimately defeated Napoleon.
What are Prussia and Great Britain?
400
The most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–1794.
Who are the Jacobins?
400
The three principles defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen that became the slogan of the French Revolution.
What are "liberty, equality, fraternity?"
500
The names of the three branches in the National Assembly's new government.
What are executive, legislative, and judicial?
500
The length of time that the Directory governed France.
What are four years?
500
The name of the meeting that led to the major European powers' plan to prevent France from once again threatening the peace of Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
500
The years during which the Reign of Terror occurred.
What are 1793 and 1794?
500
The term used to describe a seizure of force, such as Napoleon's. It is the French term for "stroke of state."
What is "coup d'état?"
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