Prominent Figures
This individual was known as Madame Deficit because of her love for clothes, jewels, and gambling. She was hated as the last Queen of France.
Marie Anoinette
Before the revolution, France's society was divided into classes. This system of society was known as:
Old Regime
The political label describing the radical members of the Legislative Assembly was:
Left-wing
The one year period from July 1793 to July 1794 when the "enemies of the Republic" were executed in great numbers is known as the:
Reign of Terror
The French general who eventually became the dictator of France and then emperor was:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Members of the First Estate were the:
Clergy / Church
The political label describing the conservative members of the Legislative Assembly was:
Right-wing
The delegates of the Third Estate refused to leave their "new" meeting place until they had a constitution. This pledge is known as the:
Tennis Court Oath
*What action by the leaders of the French Revolution demonstrates that they were influenced by Enlightenment ideas?
They called for the fall of the absolute monarchy.
This person claimed it was possible to build a "Republic of Virtue" through the use of terror.
Maximilien Robespierre
Members of the Second Estate were the:
Nobility / Royalty
This invention was a democratic and humane product of the enlightenment, but ultimately was a mis-used symbol of the revolution.
Guillotine
What happened on July 14, 1789?
Storming of the Bastille.
*Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote that the relationship between citizens and their government was a social contract. Which statement describes the impact of the idea of government as a social contract on the French Revolution in 1789?
French citizens claimed their natural rights.
This individual ruled France as King in the years and days immediately prior to the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI
About what percent of France's population belonged to the First and Second Estates combined?
2%
These were the fish-women (mongers) of Paris who took revolutionary action and placed King Louis XVI under house arrest which signaled the transference of power to the people.
Poisarden
What issue(s) led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years? (all 3)
Financial crisis, food shortages, and riots among the peasants.
*In 1789, the French National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man, based in part on the concepts expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776 (as well as the Bill of Rights). Both of the "Declarations" reflected the Enlightenment belief that governments exist to protect the natural rights of citizens. What developments in France and the United States attempted to assure the implementation of this concept of government?
drafting constitutional protections
The Radical newspaper, L’Ami du Peuple (Friend of the People), that called for the deaths of those it saw as enemies of the revolution was published by:
Jean Paul Marat
About what percentage of France's population belonged to the Third Estate?
98%
*During the Enlightenment, a number of writers explored the relationship between governments and the people they governed. For example, Rousseau wrote The Social Contract in which he examined ideas about majority will and the common good. How did these ideas influence the American and French Revolutions? (3 Answers)
they supported movements for social change, political change, and ultimately revolution