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100
This group emerged from the 3rd Estate when the Estate felt they were not being heard.
What is the National Assembly?
100
This individual known as "the incorruptible" was the voice of the revolution.
Who is Robespierre?
100
This event was the opening battle of the French Revolution.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
100
The practice of spending more money than you are taking in is known as?
What is deficit spending?
100
This event in October 1789 showed the beginning of the failure of the revolution.
What is the Womens march on Versailles?
200
This faction, mostly composed of Jacobins, changed their attire and were known as.
What are the sans-culottes?
200
This artist produced many paintings that extolled the virtues of the revolution and its leaders.
Who is Jacques Louis David?
200
When the tricolor was reputed to have been trampled this group marched to Versailles and demanded the King return to Paris.
Who were the women that marched on Versailles?
200
This economic embargo was part of an alliance of European powers designed to hurt France economically.
What is the Continental System?
200
This time period during which there were attacks on villages and a seizing of crops, demonstrated that the leaders of the revolution were unprepared to rule a nation.
What is The Great Fear?
300
This portable symbol became important following the fall of the Bastille.
What is tricolor?
300
This vocal female member of the revolutions expressed her disappointment with the way women were treated with regard to citizenship. She wrote Declarations of the Rights of Woman and was executed at the guillotine.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
300
The peasant women Charlotte Courday assassinated this newspaper editor in his bath, making him a martyr to the revolution.
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
300
This minister was appointed by Louis XVI to help with the countries budgetary concerns.
Who is Jacques Necker?
300
The development of this misnamed committee is further evidence of the deterioration of the revolution.
What is the Committee for Public Safety?
400
This is a term for a small group that splits from the main body.
What is a faction?
400
This Prince of Austria wanted to restore the status quo, following the Congress of Vienna.
Who is Clemens von Metternich?
400
The National Convention in 1792 expanded this right to all men, not just men who owned property.
What is suffrage?
400
This tool was used to cripple France both Militarily and Economically during Napoleon's reign.
What is a blockade?
400
This institutionalized tactic designed to save the revolution finally determined its outcome.
What is The Reign of Terror?
500
A ballot in which voters say yest or no.
What is a plebiscite?
500
This British General is given credit for the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
Who is the Duke of Wellington?
500
To restore legitimacy to the ruler the Congress of Vienna put this individual on the throne of France following the final exile of Napoleon.
Who is Louis XVIII?
500
These groups contributed the least to the treasury of France during the Ancien Regime.
What is the First and Second Estates?
500
The failure of this military campaign led directly to the ultimate defeat of the regime and the restoration of a monarch.
What is the invasion of Russia?