⚠️ Causes of the French Revolution
Crop failure and hunger worsened by this 1788 event.
What is drought (famine)?
This was the first violent uprising of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This 1804 legal code standardized French law.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This 1815 battle marked Napoleon’s final defeat.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
He bridged the classical and romantic eras in music.
Who is Beethoven?
BONUS (1000): Which Beethoven symphony do I want played at my funeral?
BONUS (5000): Which movement?
This estate bore the tax burden but had little power.
What is the Third Estate?
This oath committed the National Assembly to a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
These schools trained bureaucrats and officers under Napoleon.
What are lycées?
This 1814–1815 conference restored Europe’s monarchies and redrew Europe’s map post-Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This revolutionary idea spread across Europe after 1789.
What is nationalism?
This violent event marked the symbolic start of the Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This 1790 law reorganized the Church under state control.
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
This is the name of a trade embargo imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars
What is the Continental System?
He led the Congress of Vienna and symbolized conservatism.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
Romanticism was partly a reaction to this earlier movement.
What is Enlightenment rationalism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Prior to the revolution, France was in debt partly because of their involvement in these two conflicts.
What are the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution?
This committee led France during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This three-member governing body ruled France from 1799 to 1804 before Napoleon declared himself Emperor.
What is the Consulate?
These were the two guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna aimed to prevent another Napoleonic takeover.
What are balance of power and legitimacy?
BONUS (200): Define both terms in the context of the Congress of Vienna.
This romantic writer is the Author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelly?
This Enlightenment-inspired document was passed in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This five-member executive council was established after the radical phase of the revolution.
What is the Directory?
Napoleon signed this agreement with the Pope, which restored public worship in France and recognized the Roman Catholic Church as the "religion of great majority."
What is the Concordat of 1801?
This exile island became Napoleon’s final home.
What is Saint Helena?
Bonus (100): Where was he exiled to the first time?
This Romantic poet died fighting for Greek independence.
Who is Lord Byron?