The Old Regime
Causes of the French Revolution (R-E-B-E-L)
The Revolution Unfolds
The Revolution Turns Radical
To Hell With Big Daddy!
Let Dem Fools Eat Cake!
100
Responsible for spiritual guidance and education
IT'S A WHEEL!
1st Estate -
100
Which of the three Estates paid no taxes?
The 1st and 2nd Estates
100
What type of government did France have under the National Assembly?
A limited or constitutional monarchy
100
The Revolutionaries split into 3 factions; what were they?
ITS A WHEEL!
Conservatives, Moderates and Conservatives
100
Identify at least two nations that France was at war with by 1792.
* Austria
* Prussia
* Great Britain
100
– Sans-culottes broke into prisons and killed nobles and clergy
The September Massacre
200
Which Estate did Bourgeoisie belong to?
The 3rd Estate
200
What ideas led people to question the inequality of the Estates system?
IT'S A WHEEL!
Enlightenment Ideas
200
This document was inspired by both the Enlightenment and the American Declaration of Independence.
IT'S A WHEEL!
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
200
These were royalists and members of the 1st two estates who fled France
Emigres
200
What was the major difference between Jacobins and Sansculottes?
Jacobins were middle class and Sans-culottes were working class
200
Let them eat cake was said by Marie Antoinette during which event?
The Women's March on Versailles
300
What was the staple diet of French peasants during Old Regime France?
Bread
300
What was one cause of the French debt during the 1780s?
* King Louis loaned money to American Revolutionaries
* Spending of the Royal Family
300
Identify at least one demand the mob made on the king and the queen during the women’s March on Versailles?
* Bread
*That the King and Queen come back to Paris
300
Provide one reason for which the guillotine was invented?
* It was quick and painless
* It was a more humane way to execute criminals
* It was an equal form of punishment
300
What crime was Louis Tried and convicted of?
ITS A WHEEL!
Treason
300
Who was the leader of the COPS?
Robespierre
400
Identify at least two reasons why the people of France despised Marie Antoinette
* She was Austrian
* Her spending habits
400
– Identify three groups aside from peasants who made up the 3rd estate
* Bourgeoisie
* Skilled Workers
* Urban Poor
400
What action committed by Louis led many people to believe that he was disloyal to the revolution?
Louis and his family tried to escape to Austria
400
What type of government did Jacobins and sans-culottes both demand?
IT'S A WHEEL!
A Republic
400
Under the radicals France became a republic- what was the government called at this time? (2 word answer)
National Convention
400
What was the primary purpose for the COPS?
IT'S A WHEEL!
To deal with threats to the revolution
500
In what year did the Old Regime end?
IT'S A WHEEL!!
1789
500
10 percent of peasants yearly income was paid to the 1st estate
tithe
500
Red, white and blue flag that was created at the beginning of the revolution
IT'S A WHEEL!
The Tricolor
500
Identify two radical changes that the National convention made
* Christianity was outlawed
* France became a republic
* All men were given the right to vote
* Slavery was abolished
500
Radical newspaper publisher who called for violence against the first two estates
IT'S A WHEEL!
Jean Paul Marat
500
Marie Antoinette’s BFF killed during the Sept Massacre?
Madame Lambelle