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What were the three estates (who made up each estate) in the Old (Ancien) Regime of France?
First Estate - Clergy
Second Estate - Nobility
Third Estate - Everybody Else
This French lawyer became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Napoleon came into power through this seizing of power of the government.
What is coup d'etat?
What is France?
Name one WHS Assistant Principal.
See teacher for validation.
What is the Bastille?
This is the name of the radical (left) political party of the French Revolution during the National Convention.
What are the Jacobins?
This strategy was used by the Russians when being invaded by Napoleon.
What is scorched earth policy?
The revolutions in South America were led mainly by this social class of people in Spanish Colonial society.
What are creoles?
Actual Jeopardy Question: It's the combined degree total of 2 angles of an equilateral triangle.
What is 120?
This was the home country of Marie Antoinette, prior to her marriage to King Louis XVI.
What is Austria?
This group ruled France during the Terror and tried to establish a "Republic of Virtue".
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Also called the Battle of Nations, this military defeat led to the Napoleon being exiled to the island of Elba.
What is the Battle of Leipzig?
Name of the Venezuelan general who helped to liberate South America from Spanish rule in establishing Gran Colombia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
What is New York?
This French Palace located outside of Paris began construction under King Louis XIV (14th).
What is Versailles?
This was the name of the government that followed the Legislative Assembly, during which King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were executed and a French republic was established.
What is the National Convention?
What is legitimacy?
This formerly enslaved person became a military general and led the overthrow of the French during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This hurricane made its way through the southeastern part of the United States last week.
What is Milton?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This is the name of the editor of the newspaper L’Ami du Peuple (“The Friend of the People”), he became an influential voice in favor of the most radical measures during the Revolution. He was assassinated in his medicinal bath and became a martyr for the Revolution.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
This was the name of the French naval blockade established during the Napoleonic Wars to damage the British economy.
What is the Continental System?
This priest was a key figure in Mexican independence and is remembered for issuing the "grito de Dolores (the cry of Dolores) as a call for rebellion against Spain.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
Actual Jeopardy Question: This 2-word Italian term refers to pasta cooked not too hard or too soft, but still a little firm "to the tooth" .
What is "al dente"?