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100
The king during the French Revolution.
Who was King Louis XVI?
100
This is where a major revolution occured from 1789-1799
What is France?
100
This is called a dissenting group.
What is a faction?
100
These estates included the clergy and nobility.
What are the 1st and 2nd Estates?
100
This is known as the middle class in France.
What is the bourgeoisie?
200
Members of the Paris Commune known for being ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
Who were the sans-culottes?
200
This is where the king lived and called the Estates-General
What is Versailles?
200
These are individuals qualified to vote in elections.
What are electors?
200
King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Olympe de Gourges, and Robespierre were killed by this method of execution.
What is the guillotine?
200
The major cause of the French Revolution.
What is taxation?
300
The newly appointed minister of justice of the Paris Commune.
Who was Georges Danton?
300
This is where the Bastille was located.
What is Paris?
300
A sudden overthrow of the government is called a __________.
What is a coup detat?
300
These two factions were part of the Jacobin club.
What are the Girondins and the Mountain?
300
This document was inspired by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
400
The leader of the Committee of Public Safety.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
400
This is where the most notorious act of violence occurred during the Reign of Terror in which people were executed by being sunk in barges in the Loire River.
What is Nantes?
400
The second important factor leading to the defeat of Napoleon and is known as a love for one's country.
What is nationalism?
400
These are two main factors that contributed to the collapse of Napoleon's empire.
What are nationalism and the survival of Great Britain?
400
Leaders of these two countries threatened force to restore Louis XVI to power.
What are Austria and Prussia?
500
Self-proclaimed child of the revolution who once stated, "I am the revolution."
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
500
Napoleon was exiled to these two islands.
What is Elba and St. Helena?
500
Government established in France after the overthrow of the Directory in 1799 with Napoleon as first consul.
What is a consulate?
500
Name two of the four powers Napoleon possessed as first counsul.
What are appointed members of the government, controlled the army, conducted foreign affairs, influenced the legislature?
500
This was Napoleon's most important of his seven codes of law which preserved many of the gains of the revolution.
What is the Civil Code or the Napoleonic Code?