Before the French Revolution
Enlightenment philosopher who believed humans are naturally greedy.
Who was Thomas Hobbes
King of France during the French Revolution
King Louis XVI
The earliest event that could be argued to have begun the French Revolution
What is the Tennis Court Oath or the formation of the National Assembly?
The name of the event when Napoleon overthrew the French government and named himself leader?
What is Coup D'Etat?
The symbol of the Reign of Terror. Used to kill over 17,000 people during the Reign of Terror
What is the guillotine?
Another name for the Enlightenment
What is the "Age of Reason"
Where the King and Queen of France lived
Palace of Versailles
The symbolic start to the French Revolution
What is the storming of the Bastille?
Birth place of Napoleon
Island of Corscia
What document set forth the principles underlying the French Revolution? Adopted by the National Assembly in August, 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The idea that people give consent to be governed. Also the name of a book by Rousseau.
What is the Social Contract?
Social hierarchy in place in France prior to the French Revolution.
What is the Estate system?
Peasant revolt caused by conspiracy theory that the nobility was hoarding grain.
What is the Great Fear?
The Russians did this, as they retreated from Napoleons attack.
Sorched Earth Policy
What event caused Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to move from Versailles to Paris in 1789?
What is the Women's March on Versailles?
This revolution led to the Enlightenment
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The people in each of the Estates in France prior to the Revolution
What is the Clergy in the First Estate, the Nobility in the Second Estate, and everyone else in the Third Estate.
Where the National Assembly met to proclaim that they would continue to meet until a constitution had been drawn up for France.
Where is a tennis court?
Set of laws set forth by Napoleon based on Enlightenment principles intended to bring order to the French legal system.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
Who was the leader of the Committee for Public Safety and led France during the Reign of Terror?
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
Form of government with a king or queen, but also a set of written laws that constrain the king or queen's authority.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
What was the percent of income paid in taxes by the 3 estates
Estate 1: 0%
Estate 2: 1-5%
Estate 3: 50%
The ruling political faction during the Reign of Terror
Who are the Jacobins?
Napoleon was exiled here after his defeat at Waterloo
What is St. Helena?
French nobles who moved out of France and the beginning of the revolution and were thought to be plotting to overthrow the revolution.
Who were the Émigres?