Name the device with a blade that drops when a string is pulled to behead individuals
What is a guillotine
100
Name the council the king brought together to discuss the financial crisis of France with all the estates
What is the Estates-General
100
What is the name of the famous palace where the king and his family lived?
What is The Palace of Versailles
100
What estate was 97% of the population
What is the third estate
100
Name the mechanism used to behead individuals
What is the guillotine
200
Define "estates system"
What is the social hiearchy of France with first, second, and third estates with first estate the most wealthy
200
Who marched in Versailles to protest lack of bread?
Who are the women of the third estate?
200
Name the military leader that became the monarch at the end of the Revolution
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
200
What two estates could vote?
What is the first and second estate
200
What do the three colors on the French flag represent?
What is freedom, equality and brotherhood
300
What was the time period from September 1793 to July 1794, revolutionary courts conducted hasty trials and executions of thousands of supposed traitors called
What is the reign of terror
300
What royal king was executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793
Who is King Louis XVI?
300
Who is the queen of France that represented royal excess and ignorance?
Who is Marie-Antoinette
300
Name two reasons why France was in economic crisis
What is the American Revolution, 7 years war, the enlightenment, past revolutions and extravagant lifestyle of nobles
300
How many people died during the French Revolution?
What is 25,000 people
400
What is the word for: tri color early flag used by revolutionaries that became France's national flag?
What is the tri-color
400
What was the oath taken by the third estate to make a constitution?
What is the Tennis Court Oath
400
What is the name of the prison that was raided in the beginning of the revolution? (name of popular music artist)
What is Bastille
400
Name the French philosopher that spread unified ideas into France
Who is Voltaire?
400
What is the name of all French kings?
What is King Louis
500
What is the title given to all French people to eliminate all other titles of the ancien regime
What is a citizen
500
Name the day that the commoners stormed the prison of Bastille (French Independence)
What is July 14
500
Who was the head of the Committee of Public Safety, that killed many out paranoia
Who is Maximilien de Robespierre?
500
Name two effects of the French Revolution on France and modern day
What are unified ideas throughout France, seperated church and state, less social divide, inspired other revolutions