Old Order
First Events
Republic
Reign of Terror
Miscellaneous
100
He was at the top of the Old Order.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
Social inequality, bad harvest and a bad winter, economic problems and this are the main causes of the French Revolution.
What is Enlightenment ideas?
100
On January 23rd, 1793, this man was executed by guillotine.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
This is the device used to execute most victims of the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
100
This is the country that Marie Antoinette was originally from.
What is Austria?
200
She was married to Louis XVI.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
200
This is the meeting that the Third Estate refused to participate in because of unfair voting policies.
What is the Estates General?
200
This document, similar to the US Bill of Rights, laid out the the basic principles of the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen?
200
This is the number of people who were killed during the Reign of Terror.
What is 17,000?
200
This is a revolution against a government established by a revolution.
What is a counterrevolution?
300
These are the three groups that make up the Third Estate.
What is the bourgeoisie, the sansculottes, and the peasants?
300
This is what the Third Estate first renamed itself.
What is the National Assembly?
300
This was the most radical of the new political groups that emerged after the French Revolution.
What is the Montagnards?
300
This man was a Revolutionary leader who was an advocate of violence during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
300
This is the court set up to find and eliminate anyone who was deemed a threat to the Revolution.
What is the Revolutionary Tribunal?
400
These are the two types of jobs that members of the Second Estate typically had.
What is government and military jobs?
400
In the Tennis Court Oath, the National Assembly said they would not leave until they wrote this.
What is a constitution?
400
This man was a radical Revolutionary leader who was murdered in his own bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
400
This is the new governing board that emerged after the Reign of Terror.
What is the Directory?
400
After the Revolution, this system replaced the old system of weights and measures.
What is the metric system?
500
This is what why they were nicknamed sansculottes.
What is because they wore long pants instead of knee breeches like the nobility?
500
This is why a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille looking for weapons.
What is to arm themselves against Louis XVI's troops?
500
This is the what the National Convention set up to manage France's military defense.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
500
This is the area of western France where peasants started a Civil War.
What is the Vendee?
500
This is the name of the Revolutionary leader who started off radical but later favored compromise.
Who is George-Jacques Danton?
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