Problems in France
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Early Events of the Revolution
The Reign of Terror
Vocabulary/People
100
This group of people paid 100% of the taxes in France while the Clergy and Nobility were exempt from paying
What is the Third Estate?
100
The fact that Marie Antoinette was of this nationality did not endear her to the people of France.
What is Austrian?
100
Deputies of the Third Estate took this oath, stating they would continue to meet until they had a written constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
100
The mastermind behind the Reign of Terror was this former lawyer and deputy of the Third Estate.
Who is Maximillien Robespierre?
100
This military general brought the French Revolution to an end in 1799 when he overthrew the directory and became the sole ruler of France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
200
When the price of this item went up it badly hurt the poor people of France because they consumed over 2 lbs of this per day.
What is bread?
200
This group of angry women were responsible for forcing Louis and Marie to return to Paris from the palace of Versailles.
Who are the Angry Fish Women of the 3rd Estate?
200
In July of 1789 angry Parisians stormed this medieval prison in a huge symbolic gesture.
What is the Bastille?
200
Over 60,000 people were executed, many at the hands of this new killing machine.
What is the Guillotine?
200
This "friend of the people" was murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Courday in 1793.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
300
A wave of senseless panic in the French countryside, where peasants armed themselves and became outlaws.
What is the Great Fear?
300
This was the most famous line Marie Antoinette never said.
What is "Let Them Eat Cake?"
300
This French document is based off of the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
300
About 85% of those executed were members of this group-who supposedly the revolution was fought for.
Who are members of the 3rd Estate (peasants)?
300
Patriots without fine clothes.
Who were the Sans-Culottes?
400
With the French economy in shambles the banks forced Louis to hire this financial advisor, who was very sympathetic to the people of France.
Who is Jacques Necker?
400
These two foreign countries invaded France with the hope of saving Louis and Marie Antoinette and restoring the monarchy.
Who is Austria and Prussia?
400
This event in the late 1700's provided the inspiration to the French people that a successful revolution was possible.
What is the American Revolution?
400
This victim of the terror was the former Minister of Justice and a friend of Robespierre.
Who is Georges Danton?
400
This club was a radical political organization whose members favored the execution of anyone thought to be plotting against the revolution.
Who are the Jacobins?
500
When Louis called a meeting of the Estates General on May 5, 1789 it was the first time the deputies had met in ________ years.
What is 175 years?
500
When the royal family attempted to escape in July 1791 they were apprehended at this small town only 40 miles from the Austrian border.
What is Verrennes?
500
This was the name of the moderates who favored less violence in France and wanted to keep the King and Queen alive.
Who are the Girondins?
500
After the terror ended in 1794 this government took control of France until 1799, which included a two-house legislature and an executive body of five men.
What is the Directory?
500
Nobles and others who had fled France, hoped to undo the revolution and restore the old regime.
Who are Emigres?