This French Queen was nicknamed "Madame Deficit" and "Queen of Debt" due to her lavish spending
Who is Marie Antoinette?
100
Made up of the peasants and commoners
What is the Third Estate?
100
This is how voting worked in the Estates-General, which was inherently unfair to which estate? (2 Parts)
By order - 3rd estate
100
This was the killing tool employed by the government during the Reign of Terror?
What is The Guillotine?
100
This earlier movement heavily influenced the French Revolution by directing ordinary people to distrust traditional rulers like the king and the Roman Catholic Church.
What is The Enlightenment?
200
This is the name for nobles, clergy, and other members of the privileged class who attempted to flee to neighboring countries during the revolution.
What is an emigre?
200
This was the legislative body that Louis XVI called to discuss the financial crisis.
What is the Estates-General?
200
This type of government in France led people to revolt
What is absolute monarchy?
200
This was the period of violence at the end of the revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
This is the name for a political group that prefers to stick to tradition or change back to the old ways.
What is conservative?
300
This French King spent money on wars and the palace of Versailles, putting France in further debt
Who is Louis XVI?
300
These individuals make up the 1st estate
Who are the Clergy?
300
Once this was written, it allowed the Third Estate to abolish the privileges of the First and Second Estates.
What is The Declarations of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
300
This is the radical political faction that took over the National Convention after the execution of the king.
What are the Jacobins?
300
This is the country that Louis XVI and his family attempted to flee to in 1791. It is also the original home of Marie Antoinette.
What is Austria?
400
The leader of the Comittee of Public Safety, responsible for 40,000 deaths in France during the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
400
These people are also known as the "middle class" of France
Who are the bourgeoisie?
400
This was signed when the 3rd estate was locked out of the Estate-General meeting and it formed what group. (2 Parts)
What are the Tennis Court Oath and National Assembly?
400
This was the name of the new national government dominated liberal political factions after the failure of the Legislative Assembly and the king's escape attempt. It was what type of government (2 parts).
What are the National Convention and republican democracy?
400
These were the main guarantees in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
What is liberty, equality, and fraternity?
500
The name a working class group of people in Paris who pushed the revolution toward radical violence.
Who are the sans-culottes?
500
What was the main source of inequality between the 3 estates?
The 3rd estate paid all of the taxes.
500
After writing the constitution of 1791, the National Assembly created this type of government which was called what? (2 parts)
What is a limited (constitutional) monarchy and the Legislative Assembly?
500
Napoleon overthrew this weak semi-monarchical "government" before crowning himself emperor.