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People and Terms
Enlightenment and America
French Revolution
Reign of Terror
Age of Napoleon
100
Term for the classes of French society, broken into Clergy, Nobles, and Commoners?
What are the Three Estates?
100
The ideas of the Enlightenment could be summarized in this one word.
What is Reason?
100
The third estate's promise to not stop meeting until they had created a French Constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
100
Give a specific reason you could be arrested during the Reign of Terror?
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100
Term for a sudden take over of a government, like Napoleon's over throw of the Directory.
What is a Coup d’état?
200
Political term for someone who wants extreme changes?
What is a Radical?
200
An Enlightenment idea that was used in the American Declaration of Independence.
What are limited government or government created by the people?
200
The reason Louis XVI called for the Estates General in 1789.
What were France's Financial Problems?
200
Group created to protect France from Traitors that took over the government, sending thousands to the Guillotine.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
200
One change Napoleon made to France.
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300
Commoners of the Third Estate who were rich, educated, middle class.
Who were the Bourgeois?
300
A time of great scientific advancement where new ideas over threw old ones.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
Date the French Revolution began.
What is July 14, 1789?
300
Two new laws created by Robespierre to create the Republic of Virtue.
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300
Reason Napoleon could take back over France so easily after being defeated the first time.
What is "the French loved him"?
400
Philosophe of the Enlightenment who analyzed the theory of governments.
Who is Montesquieu?
400
This allowed America to beat the British at the battle of Yorktown.
What is the French Navy?
400
Old prison and armory destroyed by a Paris mob, considered the start of the Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
400
This event ended the Reign of Terror.
What is the execution of Robespierre?
400
The big mistake that caused Napoleon to be defeated the first time.
What is trying to invade Russia?
500
French nobleman who helped fight in the American Revolution and later helped write the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France.
Who is Lafayette?
500
One result of the French helping during the American revolution.
What are France went more in debt or France was inspired by our ideas of Freedom?
500
Most important result of the October 15 mob of Women marching on Versailles and demanding bread.
What is Louis XVI giving his support to the new government?
500
Main result of the murder of Marat.
What is a greater hatred of anyone who disagreed with the new Republic?
500
The place Napoleon was finally defeated for good.
What is Waterloo, Belgium?