Causes of the French Revolution
This estate made up most of the French population but had the least political power.
What is the Third Estate?
King Louis XVI called this meeting in 1789 to address France’s financial crisis.
What is the Estates-General?
This document declared that men were born free and equal in rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This military leader took control of France after the Revolution.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This document announced that the American colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
France’s unequal social system divided the population into these three groups.
What are the Three Estates?
The Third Estate broke away and formed this new representative body.
What is the National Assembly?
This radical political group helped overthrow the monarchy and supported major revolutionary change.
Who were the Jacobins?
Napoleon created this set of laws that established legal equality for men.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas about natural rights influenced the American Revolution.
Who is John Locke?
Members of this estate included the clergy and enjoyed special privileges.
What is the First Estate?
Members of the National Assembly promised not to separate until France had a constitution in this famous pledge.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This device became a symbol of executions during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Napoleon crowned himself with this title in 1804.
What is emperor?
This former enslaved leader played a major role in the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
This economic problem grew because France spent heavily on wars and the royal court.
What is the national debt?
On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed this prison and symbol of royal authority.
What is the Bastille?
This radical leader became closely associated with the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of this country greatly weakened his army.
What is Russia?
Haiti became independent from this European nation.
What is France?
Explain two major causes of the French Revolution.
What are social inequality, unfair taxation, food shortages, rising bread prices, government debt, and Enlightenment ideas?
Why was the storming of the Bastille important to the French Revolution?
What is that it showed the people were willing to fight royal authority and became a symbol of the Revolution?
What was the purpose of the Reign of Terror, and what was one major result?
What is that revolutionary leaders used violence and executions to eliminate enemies of the Revolution, resulting in thousands of deaths and eventually Robespierre’s downfall?
European leaders met at this gathering to restore stability and balance of power after Napoleon’s defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Identify one important similarity between the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions
What is that each challenged existing authority and was influenced by ideas involving freedom, rights, equality, or self-government?