French Revolution Causes
What is social class?
This was the main method of execution during the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
This French ruler brought political stability during the French Revolution.
BONUS: Name this person's law code.
Who is Napoleon?
BONUS: Napoleonic Code.
This type of engine revolutionized transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
He wrote the book "The Communist Manifesto"
Who is Karl Marx?
The reason the Third Estate was unhappy with voting.
What is each Estate only got one vote and they were always outvoted?
The political prison the Third Estate took over to start the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
The King of France during the French Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The reason the Industrial Revolution began in England.
What is England had natural resources such as coal?
These people are exploited according to the ideas of communism.
Who are the working class?
The reason the Third Estate was upset with taxes.
What is the Third Estate had to pay all taxes while the other two didn't?
The period of violence & execution by the guillotine during the French Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This person was a big spender who loved cake.
Who is Marie Antionette?
This was an unfortunate side effect of industrialization that we are still addressing today. (2 Answers, name both for bonus)
Pollution / Population Growth
This was an economic system that focused on the free market.
BONUS: Who created this system?
What is capitalism?
BONUS: Adam Smith
The reason the Third Estate was upset with land ownership.
What is they didn't have enough land while the other two estates had more than they needed?
The city where the Estates-General would meet.
BONUS: Where did the Third Estate meet when they were kicked out of the Estates-General?
What is Versailles?
BONUS: A tennis court.
The inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The movement of people from small villages and towns to cities for work during industrialization.
What is Urbanization?
This group benefitted the most from industrialization according to the ideas of communism.
What is the wealthy (or factory owners)?
Name the main social groups that made up each estate. (1st, 2nd, and 3rd).
What is the Church, the Nobility, and the Poor & Middle Class?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
He led the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
BONUS: What was the name of his new state religion?
Who is Maximillian Robespierre?
BONUS: The Cult of Reason.
What is hand made to machine made goods?
What happened to Napoleon after he was finally defeated by the British?
He was exiled to an island (twice!).