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A dictator who was in charge of France at the end of French Revolution.
Napoleon.
Who became leader of the radical wing of the revolutionary government?
Maximilien Robespierre
An attempt to overthrow the current government.
coup d'etat.
What was the rallying cry of the French Revolution?
Liberty, equality, and fraternity
These three philosophers inspired the French Revolution.
Who is John Locke, Jean Rousseau, and Montesquieu.
Whom should the government protect, according to Robespierre?
Who was most affected by the Napoleonic Codes?
Women
The most significant cause of the French Revolution.
economic and social inequality.
The radical Jacobin leader during the Reign of Terror.
Maximilian de Robespierre?
Name the 10 year period from 1789-1799.
What is the French Revolution?
The Purpose of the Reign of Terror.
what is to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders?
Who issued the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”?
The National Assembly
How did Napoleon come to power?
Saved the Directory from the Royalists.
"Terror is the Order of the Day"-Maxiemilien Robespierre
What method did he use to instill fear?
The Guillotine
The French Revolution was marked by political, economic, and social reform. What paved the way for Social reform?
Adopting the Declaration or Rights of Man
The incident which sparked the Revolution.
What is the attack by the Third Estate on the Bastille State Prison and setting free prisoners sparked the Revolution.
How did France change under the National Assembly?
France became a Republic
What is a republic?
a government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives
What was Napoleons Coup d'Etat?
Sudden seizure of the weakened government
The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are similar in many ways.
What type of government did they both favor?
representative government
What is one way that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence?
affirmed the function of government was to protect individual rights
French Revolution of 1789 stood for this.
What is the idea of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
The purpose of drafting a constitution in France.
What is to limit the power of the monarch.
What was the outside threat that faced French Revolutionaries in 1792 and 1793?
The outside threat was the invasion of 80,000 Prussian and Austrian soldiers.
Napolean's 3 Big Mistakes
1. Continental System
2. The Peninsula War
3. Invasion of Russia
Why did the Members of the National Assembly storm the Bastille?
Show they could challenge the Monarchy
Rousseau wrote, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." What kind of government did he favor in order to insure greater freedom?
a popular elected government
."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . . ."— The Declaration of Independence
John Locke
What sorts of activities could get a person introuble with the Committee of Public Safety
Anyone could come under suspicion but just criticizing the government in a small way could land a person in jail . . . or worse.
Where was the center of the Counter Revolution inside France?
Vendée