Vocabulary
Notebooks containing a list of grievances
What are cahiers?
The wife of Louis XVI
Who is Marie Antionette?
When the Estates-General was locked out and refused to stop meeting until a new constitution had been drafted.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Created in August of 1789 and modeled after the American Declaration of Independence.
Why did European rulers and nobles denounce (speak out against) the French Revolution?
Spending more money than you take in
What is deficit spending?
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety and responsible for leading the Reign of Terror
After the Tennis Court Oath and people heard rumors that royal guards were surrounding Paris - they went looking for weapons and gunpowder.
What the Storming of the Bastille?
This document put the Catholic Church under control of state.
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
In 1792, radicals took control of the Assembly, abolished the monarchy and set up this new type of government.
The old order of French society
What is ancien regime?
Louis XVI's financial advisor who was loved and respected by all, but ultimately fired for recommending the wealthy be taxed.
Who is Jacques Necker?
A period of time that peasants vandalized and destroyed the property of nobles, worrying those that were nervous about the escalation of violence.
What the Great Fear?
The Constitution of 1791 established the Legislative Assembly and set up this type of monarchy.
What is a limited monarchy?
The radical political group that took control of the National Convention and convinced them to try the king for treason
What is the Jacobins
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
Hero who fought in the American Revolution and chosen to be the leader of the Parisian National Guard.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
A mob marched to this place demanding to see the king and have him return to Paris.
What is the Women's March on Versailles?
The Constitution of 1795 effectively ended the Revolution and established this new 5 man governing body.
What is the Directory?
To deal with threats to France, the National Convention created this group
What is the Committee of Public Safety
Nicknamed the "National Razor" and used as a more humane method of execution during the revolution
What is the guillotine?
Military war hero who was turned to for leadership and advice after the Reign of Terror. He became leader of the Directory and later assumed even more power in France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The fate of Louis XVI (what happened to him?)
What is he was put on trial for treason and executed.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was inspired by the ideals from what time period?
What is The Enlightenment?
The economic crisis in France (at the start of the Revolution) was caused by these main factors
What are bad harvests, deficit spending, and costly wars.