Vocabulary
People
Places
Causes and Consequences
Potpourri
100
Top of the Third Estate
What is bourgeoisie?
100
King of France during the French Revolution
Who is Louis XVI (the Sixteenth)?
100
Issue that lead to the first meeting at Versailles of the Estates General in 175 years
What is taxing the other estates (taxing 2nd estate)
100
The punishment handed down for being a monarch during the French Revolution
What is death/beheading (by Guillotine)?
100
What the Parisiens were looking for when they stormed the Bastille
What are weapons
200
Slogan of the French Revolution--either English or French
What is Liberte Egalite Fraternite or Liberty Equality Brotherhood (or fraternity)
200
Austrian born wife of the monarch during the Revoution
Who is the Marie Antoinette?
200
Ornate palace seen as a symbol of the over-indulgence of the monarchy; all three Estates met here
What is Versailles?
200
Punishment for being married to the monarch during the Revolution and overspending on clothes, food and an extravagant lifestyle
What is death/beheading (by Guillotine)?
200
Maximillian Robespierre headed this group--generally responsible for the killing during the Reign of Terror
What is the Committee of Public Safety
300
Term describing most radical members of the French Legislative Assembly--would generally refer to very liberal ideas in US society.
What is left wing
300
Working class French who wanted more radical changes (political party)
Who are the Jacobins?
300
Prison that was stormed by the citizens of Paris on July 14 1789
What is the Bastille
300
New ideas about government from this movement helped fuel the revolution (Think Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke)
What is the Enlighenment
300
Bastille Day, July 14th, would most closely be linked to this American holiday
What is the 4th of July
400
Nobles, clergy and others who fled revolutionary France
What are emigres (emigrants)?
400
First and last name of the supposedly vertically challenged military leader who assumed control at the end of the French Revolution
Who is Napolean Bonaparte?
400
Frances largest city, where the Bastille once stood
What is Paris
400
The majority of the king's money came from taxes on this group?
What is the Third Estate
400
Pledge by members of the third estate to not leave this spot until a Constitution was written and a National Assembly declared
What is the Tennis Court Oath
500
Approximate number of people belonging to Third Estate
What is 98%
500
Known as "the incorruptible", called for the heads of others to come off and later lost his own. Considered last victim of reign of terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
Marie Antoinette's homeland. Nation where royal family was trying to escape?
What is Austria
500
The outdated political system in France before the Revolution--gave many privelages to some and none to others.
What is Old Regime (ancien Regime)
500
The new system of government after the Reign of Terror
What is the Directory
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