Main Causes
This economic hardship affected the common people which left them very hungry and contributed to revolutionary unrest in France.
Famine
This French king was executed during the Revolution.
King Louis XVI
This document, adopted in 1789, declared the rights of citizens.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
This radical political group led by Robespierre was known for its extreme measures.
The Jacobins
Louis XVI transformed a hunting lodge into a palace where he moved his family and court to.
The Palace of Versailles.
Members of the Third Estate were fed up of having to pay __________ to the first and second estates.
taxes
She was the queen of France and wife of Louis XVI who was referred to as Madam Deficit.
Marie Antoinette
This event saw thousands of women march to Versailles demanding bread and political reforms.
The Women's March on Versailles
This moderate revolutionary group sought a constitutional monarchy.
The Girondists
Napoleon Bonaparte ended up crowing himself as ______________.
Emperor
Wars
This revolutionary leader was known for his radical policies and was eventually executed.
Maximilien Robespierre
This period of extreme violence and political purges occurred during the Revolution.
The Reign of Terror
These people sought to reinstate the monarchy.
Monarchists
This name is what King Louis XVI was referred to when he was charged for Treason.
Citizen Louis Capet
This scandal involving a diamond necklace tarnished the reputation of Marie Antoinette and contributed to the unrest leading to the French Revolution.
The Affair of the Necklace
He was a military leader who rose to power after the Revolution and became Emperor of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This event marked the beginning of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789.
The Storming of the Bastille
The Reign of Terror was carried out by this political club.
The Jacobins
This powerful group, led by Robespierre, was responsible for overseeing the Reign of Terror and maintaining "order" during the French Revolution.
This social system divided French society into three estates.
Ancien Régime
This Swiss-born banker was appointed to General of Finance by King Louis XVI and attempted to reform the country's finances before the French Revolution.
Jacques Necker
This assembly was formed by the Third Estate after being locked out of the Estates-General.
The National Assembly
This group represented the working-class Parisians and played a key role in the Revolution.
The Sans-Culottes
This period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumors of an aristocratic conspiracy occurred in the summer of 1789 during the French Revolution.
The Great Fear