French Society
How many estates were there before the Revolution?
3
-25
This was frequently used as a means of execution during the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
+25
Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?
Maximilian de Robespierre
-50
This incident sparked the Revolution?
What is storming the Bastille?
+25
This thinker thought people are bad, therefore they need a strong king.
Thomas Hobbes
-20
Why was voting unfair in the Estates-General?
Each Estate got 1 vote regardless of population
+30
This was France’s first established state-sponsored atheistic religion made to replace Catholicism during the Revolution.
What is the Cult of Reason?
+65
Who was the French King at the outbreak for the French Revolution
Louis XVI
+50
The Women’s march on Versailles all started because…?
Women were demanding bread for their families.
-15
This thinker thought the job of the government was to protect people's natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke
+20
Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Germinal, and Thermidor are all months in what?
The French Revolutionary calendar
+25
To get gunpowder.
Why did members of the National Assembly storm the Bastille?
+30
What group of people made up the Third estate?
Peasants, Farmers, and the Bourgeoisie
-25
The period of extreme violence where thousands, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, were executed.
The Reign of Terror
-30
This thinker thought authority can only be compatible with individual freedom if it is consented to, therefore there must be a social contract
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
-40
The belief that a monarch’s authority to rule comes directly from God.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
+75
The form of government in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
What is absolute monarchy?
-55
This person became Emperor of France after the French Revolution.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
-40
What is France's Independence Day and why?
July 14th, 1789 - fall of the Bastille
-20
This thinker believed in separation of powers in the government.
Who was Montesquieu?
-60
This was the name given to the French document establishing rights for all men in France?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
+50
The Seven Years War, high taxes, The Flour War, price increases, famine
What are the causes of France's financial crises/cause of French Revolution?
+25
National Constituent Assembly, Legislative Assembly, The Convention, The Directory
What are the forms of the French government during the French Revolution?
-75
This is the event in which the Third Estate vowed to write a new constitution after being locked out of the Estates-General.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
+40
This thinker believed in the separation of church and state.
Who is Voltaire?
+50