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100
Versailles was used as a jail for political prisoners.
What is false
100
The French middle class of society
What is bourgeoise
100
The document that began the American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
Nicolas Copernicus Was Best Known For this
What is the heliocentric theory
100
Name given to the classes of French society
What is an estate
200
The king’s name that was executed in the Revolution
What is Louis XVI
200
French legislators who sat in the center of the meeting hall, those who wanted some reforms but not extreme or excessive
Who are the liberals or moderates
200
Document that explains the reasons for the French Revolution
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man
200
The discoverer of gravity
What is Newton
200
This group made up the first estate
What is the clergy
300
The name for the people that wanted everything to change
What is the radicals
300
French legislators who sat on the left side of the meeting hall, those who favored widespread changes in government
Who are the radicals
300
Change in philosophy of Government that greatly influenced both the French and American Revolutions
What is the Enlightenment
300
Thomas Hobbes believed this about the nature of man
What is they were vicious, mean and cruel
300
This group made up the 2nd estate
What is the nobility
400
Location of the French prison where the Revolution began in 1789
What is the Bastille
400
French nobles who fled the country,living abroad and plotting against the Revolution
Who are the emigres
400
Economic issue that caused both the French and American Revolutions
What is taxation
400
Montesquieu believed in creating this type of government structure
What is the three branches
400
This group made up the 3rd estate
What is the peasants
500
A member of the French political society that inaugurated the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Who is Robespierre
500
The five executives of the French Government from October, 1795, to November 1799
What is the Directory
500
Government after both the French and American Revolutions was based on this
What is a constitution
500
John Locke believed in this theory of government
What is the social contract
500
This is the representative body in which each estate received an equal vote, so the 3rd estate was always outvoted
What is the Estates-General