People
Events
Causes
Outcome
Mix&Match
100
The section of French society that included the clergy.
What was the First Estate?
100
The event where the members of the Third Estate agreed to keep meeting until France had a new government
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
100
The peasants had to pay lots of them, but the nobility did not.
What are taxes?
100
Louis XVI was charged with it, because he “betrayed his country.”
What is high treason?
100
The reason why the Third Estate wanted to change the voting in the Estates General.
What is the problem with voting by blocs?
200
The section of French society that included the nobility.
What was the Second Estate?
200
Thousands of women (mostly poor) did this to protest high bread prices and Louis’ parties.
What was the march from Paris to Versailles?
200
Harsh winters and crop failures caused the price of this necessity to skyrocket.
What is bread/flour/grain?
200
The fate of both Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
What was execution by guillotine?
200
This “national razor” was used frequently throughout the French Revolution.
What was the guillotine?
300
The section of French society that included the bourgeoisie and "everyone else."
What was the Third Estate?
300
The name of a period of panic and riots by peasants and others, when they thought the rich were conspiring to overthrow the Third Estate.
What was "The Great Fear" of 1789?
300
An intellectual movement that questioned authority and the church.
What was the Enlightenment?
300
The document that gave the citizens of France rights and freedoms, and limited the power of the government/monarchy.
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
300
The name of a government where a king/queen (monarch) has to share the power with an elected assembly, and follow the constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
The Austrian queen of France who lived extravagantly and had some interesting hair-dos.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
400
July 14, 1789: this event freed many prisoners and gave the people gunpowder.
What was the storming of the Bastille?
400
France’s support of the American Revolution caused this.
What was debt/bankruptcy?
400
A leader of the revolution, who attempted suicide and was later executed by guillotine.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
400
The way that Louis XVI responded to critics of his government.
What was imprisonment or execution?
500
The king of France at the time of the revolution.
Who was King Louis XVI (16th)?
500
A particularly “bloody” part of the French Revolution, in which Robespierre had many "enemies of the revolution" executed.
What was the Reign of Terror?
500
The development/major event that replaced many workers with machines/technology, causing unemployment.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
500
The name of the middle-class government that resulted following the revolution.
What was the Directory?
500
The French king who built the palace of Versailles, made his nobles do ballet, and had a pretty stylin’ wig!
Who was Louis XIV (14th)?
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