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French Population
Revolution 1
Revolution 2
Miscellaneous
100
What is the overall event that led to the Enlightenment?
The Scientific Revolution
100
We made up the First Estate.
Church Clergy
100
We were the small business owners that made as much as the Nobles but were taxed at a higher rate.
Bourgeoisie
100
What is the nickname for the guillotine?
National Razor
100
What 2 countries tried to force France to putting the monarch back in power.
Austria and Prussia
200
What is Montesquieu's influence on our Constitution?
Checks and Balances
200
We made up the Second Estate.
Nobles
200
Who was appointed the General of the French Army.
Napoleon
200
What was the French document that was influenced by the Declaration of Independence?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizens
200
The improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, or unsatisfactory
Reform
300
What was Hobbes's idea that people should give up their rights to a strict Monarch because we cannot govern ourselves?
The Social Contract
300
We made up the Third Estate.
Peasants, Bourgeoisie, and Urban Workers
300
What percentage of the Second and Third Estate were executed during the Reign of Terror
85%
300
What type of government was set up by the National Assembly when they removed the Monarch?
Limited Constitutional Monarchy
300
What is the name of the radical group who pushed for governmental change and a radical political organization.
Jacobins
400
I was put through a Catholic Inquisition because I was proving that the heliocentric theory was correct.
Galileo
400
Most of us made as much money as the Nobles but still had to pay higher taxes and we were the small business owners.
Bourgeoisis
400
I led the Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
400
Which country did the royal family flee from and why?
Austria, because Marie Antoinette was from there.
400
The Third Estate renamed themselves this when they passed laws and reforms that benefited the French people
National Assembly
500
What is the main compromise between the Federalists and Antifederalists to get the Constitution ratified?
Bill of Rights
500
What were 4 reasons that the French economy was a disaster?
Crop Failure, Bad leadership, Overspending Queen, Over taxing of the business owners, War debt
500
I led the radical group and executing 40,000 people who did not agree with the revolution.
Maximilien Robespierre
500
What were the 3 government divisions after the Limited Constitutional Monarchy was put in place?
Radicals, Moderates, Conservatives
500
What is an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed
Revolution