Causes
A privilege possessed by the third estate
What is nothing?
The incident which sparked the Revolution
What is the attack by the Third Estate on the Bastille State Prison and setting free prisoners sparked the Revolution?
The form of gov't after the National Assembly?
What is a Republic?
"Terror is the Order of the Day"-Maxiemilien Robespierre
The method did he use to instill fear
What is the Guillotine?
The 10 year period of the French Revolution
1789 - 1799
This revolution occurred prior to the French Revolution and helped to inspire change in France.
What is the American Revolution?
The rallying cry of the French Revolution? (3 words)
What are liberty, equality, and fraternity?
The purpose of drafting a constitution in France.
What is limit the power of the Monarchy?
He became leader of the radical wing of the revolutionary government
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are similar in many ways.
They favoured this type of government
What is representative government?
A system in which three estates each had one vote
What is the Estates-General?
The 3rd estate did this to challenge the Monarchy when locked out of the National Assembly
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The purpose of drafting a constitution in France.
What is to limit the power of the monarch?
The Purpose of the Reign of Terror
What is to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders?
How the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence
How did both documents affirmed the function of government was to protect individual rights?
The reason the vote unfair when Louis XVI voted at the Estates-General?
What is each estate got one vote, even though the Third Estate comprised 97% of the population.
An attempt to overthrow the current government.
What is a Coup d'etat?
The French Revolution was marked by political, economic, and social reform. This declaration paved the way for Social reform
What is the Declaration or Rights of Man?
Activities could get a person in trouble with the Committee of Public Safety
Anyone could come under suspicion but just criticizing the government in a small way could land a person in jail . . . or worse.
This was the outside threat that faced French Revolutionaries in 1792 and 1793
Who are the Prussians?
What is the most significant cause of the French Revolution?
What is economic and social inequality?
This group issued the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”
Who is the National Assembly?
The reason the third estate stormed the Bastille
What was a symbol of royal power?
This is the approximate number of people who died during the Great Terror
What is 40,000?
This leader became Emperor of France in the early 1800s