Causes
Under the 3 Estate system, when voting on any topic, each Estate was given this number of votes.
What is one?
A significant change from how things were done in the past.
What is a revolution?
The ironically named government of France during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
French for sudden takeover of power.
What is coup d'etat?
A class structure in France for hundreds of years leading up to the French Revolution.
What is the Estate System?
Under the Old Regime, the burden of taxation fell on this group of people.
What is the Third Estate?
Individuals stormed this building to get gunpowder and free the prisoners.
What is the Bastille?
People needed to watch their head when around this leader...until he lost his head.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Napoleon established this in 1800. It is still around today.
What is the Bank of France?
This estate consisted of the clergy.
What is the First Estate?
Inflation on this necessity caused a riot led by the women of France.
What is bread?
This document states that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The device was used to execute individuals during the Reign of Terror.
What is the guillotine?
Napoleon's set of laws that abolished the feudal system and gave many freedoms to the peasant class.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This estate consisted of the nobles.
What is the Second Estate?
A group formed by the Third Estate that broke off from the Estates General due to unfairness.
What is the National Assembly?
This King of France was arrested and later executed.
Who is Louis XVI?
Percentage wise, this group was the most executed during the Reign of Terror.
What is the working class?
Napoleon's troops were defeated in Russia partly because of this geographic condition.
What is winter?
This lowest estate in the estate system consisted of the "commoners"
What is the Third Estate?
This is the formula for a revolution.
What is anger + hunger x intelligence?
These 3 ideas are listed in the "Slogan of the Revolution"
What are Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity?
These radicals were the revolutionaries willing to defend the revolution at any cost.
Who are the Jacobins?
The site of Napoleon's final defeat.
What is Waterloo?
The National Assembly's oath to not disband until a new constitution was created that was fair for all.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?