The Old Regime
What term was used for France’s outdated social system before the Revolution?
What is the Ancien Régime?
What oath did members of the Third Estate take after being locked out of their meeting hall?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Which radical political group supported the sans-culottes and pushed the Revolution further?
Who are the Jacobins?
On which Mediterranean island was Napoleon Bonaparte born in 1769?
What is Corsica?
Which tactic did Spanish fighters use against Napoleon’s forces?
What is guerrilla warfare?
Which estate included the clergy and paid no direct taxes?
What is the First Estate?
What document declared that all men are “born and remain free and equal in rights”?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
Which device became the symbol and “engine” of the Reign of Terror?
What is the guillotine?
What popular vote by ballot did Napoleon use to gain legitimacy at each step of his rise?
What is a plebiscite?
What did the Russians use to destroy crops and villages to weaken Napoleon’s invasion?
What is the scorched-earth policy?
Which group made up the bulk of the Third Estate?
Who were the peasants?
Which queen was seen as frivolous and faced public anger during the Women’s March on Versailles?
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety, nicknamed “the Incorruptible”?
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
What legal system created by Napoleon embodied Enlightenment ideals and equality before the law?
What is the Napoleonic Code?
At which battle in 1815 was Napoleon finally defeated?
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
What event marked the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789?
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Which French noble also fought in the American Revolution and later led the National Guard?
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
What was the five-man government that ruled after the Reign of Terror?
What is the Directory?
Which agreement with the Catholic Church recognized religious freedom but kept the Church under state control?
What is the Concordat of 1801?
What 1814–1815 meeting of European leaders sought to restore stability after Napoleon’s fall?
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Which financial advisor to Louis XVI was dismissed for suggesting taxing the First and Second Estates?
Who was Jacques Necker?
Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
What legislative body abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic?
What is the National Convention?
Name one economic or social reform Napoleon introduced in France.
What is controlled prices, built roads and canals, and/or established public schools?
What alliance of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain was formed to preserve the Congress of Vienna’s decisions?
What is the Quadruple Alliance?