Causes
The economic conditions of France prior to the Revolution
What are widespread famine and a debt crisis?
The first legislature of France during the Revolution.
What is the National Assembly?
A time of widespread political violence against "enemies" of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The popular military leader and the first emperor of France
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
A meeting of conservative diplomats
What is the Congress of Vienna?
The system of government in France before the Revolution.
What is the Ancien Regime?
The King of France during the National Assembly phase.
Who is Louis XVI?
The leader of the Jacobins and the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Wars fought between 1802 and 1815, resulted in French domination of Europe.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
The architect of the Congress of Vienna
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
The members of the First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate.
What are the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else?
An agreement to never separate until France had a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A group of French radicals during the Revolution.
Who are the Jacobins?
Napoleon's downfall.
A policy to ensure that no kingdom in Europe could dominate the others.
This building represented the "old order" and it is associated with the beginning of the French Revolution
What is the Bastille?
This group supported the French Revolution because they wanted more rights. (Hint: the middle class)
Who are the Bourgeoise?
The causes of the Reign of Terror.
What were widespread violence and continuing economic crisis?
The causes of Napoleon's popularity.
The belief that Europe's true leaders were centuries-old monarchies.
The privileges enjoyed by the nobility during the Ancien Regime.
What is the exemption from paying taxes?
The Enlightenment ideas expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man
What are natural rights, limited government, and popular sovereignty?
The death toll of the Reign of Terror.
A series of laws influenced by the Enlightenment and implemented across Europe
What is the Napoleonic Code?
The accomplishments of the Congress of Vienna
What is long-lasting peace and stability in Europe, until 1914?