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Before the Revolution
French Rev - Un
French Rev - Deux
French Rev - Trois
French Rev - Quatre
100
Starvation and Unfair Taxation
What are the reasons for the unrest in France during the late 1700s?
100
Marked the beginning of the French Revolution
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
100
Agreement not to disperse meeting as the National Assembly until a constitution was written and ratified
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
100
Parisian working class who were friends of the Jacobins?
Who were the san-culottes?
100
14 and 15, respectively
What were the ages of Marie Antoinette and Louis when they married?
200
Built the Palace of Versailles and drained the French Treasury in the process
Who was Louis XIV?
200
Two groups that did not have to pay taxes under Royal rule
What were the 1st and 2nd Estate?
200
Established a proper judicial code and the autonomy of the French people; outlined man’s natural rights
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
200
First political group in power in the National Convention
Who were the Girondists?
200
Revolt against the National Assembly in the rural areas due to the banning of clergy and the sale of church lands
What is Vendee Rebellion?
300
Pushed numerous French into believing that their kingdom's old monarchical system could be (and should be) reformed
What is Enlightenment Thinking?
300
Group that not agree with the unfair system of the Estates General and broke away to form the National Assembly
What is the Third Estate?
300
Changed Louis' mind about accepting the August Decrees or the Declaration
What is the march of women to the Palace of Versailles?
300
Paper money issued by the National Assembly in France during the French Revolution.
What were assignats?
300
The name of the draft decree
What was the Levee en Masse?
400
The cause of a shortage of grain, which resulted in rising bread prices
What were crop failures in the 1780s in France?
400
Peasants and farmers revolted against their feudal contracts by attacking the manors and estates of their landlords, burning many to the ground.
What was the Great Fear?
400
Political group that started as a debate society and were composed of mostly middle class?
Who were the Jacobins?
400
Jacobin leader who was most radical of all
Who was Robespierre?
400
Program that outlawed religion in France and created a new calendar
What was the De-Christianization Program?
500
2 reasons for the rise in the number of unemployed in the textile industry in France in the 1780s
What are lower-priced imported goods and the industrial revolution?
500
Agreement in which French aristocrats surrendered their special privileges - freeing the rural peasants from their oppressive contracts
What were the August Decrees?
500
It offered French assistance to any subject peoples who wished to overthrow their governments.
What is the Decree of Fraternity?
500
Period from 1793-1794 in which many lost their heads by guillotine
What was the Reign of Terror?
500
What the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris was turned into
What was the Temple of Reason?