Causes of the Revolution
The group that paid most of the taxes but had the least power.
What is the Third Estate?
This prison was stormed on July 14, 1789, marking the start of the Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
The king of France at the start of the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?)
The name for the three social classes in pre-revolutionary France.
What are the Estates?
This estate including everyone working for the Catholic Church.
What is the first estate?
This group of people met to discuss ideas, society, politics, history, and solutions to social problems during the Enlightenment.
Who are the Philosophes?
This document, adopted in August 1789, stated that all men are born free and equal.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
The queen, famous for allegedly saying, “Let them eat cake.”
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The French parliament that had not been called in over 175 years.
What is the Estates-General?
On October 5, 1789, women marched on this suburb to demand the king and queen return to Paris.
What is Versailles?
In the years imminently before the revolution, France experienced several of these, meaning a extreme shortage of food.
What is a famine?
This period of extreme violence was led by Robespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Radical Jacobin leader who dominated the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The promise made by the Third Estate to create a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This type of source is one that provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art, often created by someone who experienced it or was present at the time.
What is a primary source?
France was in debt partly because of its involvement in this foreign conflict.
What is the American Revolution?
This 1793 device became a symbol of the Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
Who is Louis XIV?
This political faction during the revolution was the one pushing the hardest for the execution of Louis XVI.
Who are the Jacobins?
Marie Antoinette was originally from this country.
What is Austria?
The social and political system in France before the Revolution.
What is the Old/Ancien Regime?
In 1799, this general overthrew the Directory in a coup d'état.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This man, shrouded in myth, and possibly Louis XVI's brother, was believed to be a prisoner in the Bastille.
Who is the "man in the iron mask"?
The name of the five-man executive body that ruled France after Robespierre’s fall.
What is the Directory?
This musical based on a book published in 1862 by Victor Hugo is set between 1815 and 1832 and depicts the aftermath of the French Revolution. The 2012 film stars Hugh Jackman.
What is Les Misérables?