Show:
Battles
People
King Louis XVI
Old Regime
Politics as Usual
100
July 14 - "independence day" for the Third Estate.
What is Storming the Bastille?
100
liberals "without pants" who wanted political change.
Who are sans-culottes?
100
This is the manner in which King Louis entered economic woes?
What is inherited?
100
Nobles were part of this class.
What is the Second Estate?
100
The Third Estate's pledge to remain until a new constitution was drafted.
What is Tennis Court Oath?
200
The only naval defeat of Napoleon against the Third Coalition off the coast of Spain.
What is Battle of Trafalgar?
200
Marie Antoinette was given this nickname due to her frivolous spending on jewels and other luxuries.
What is Madame Deficit?
200
Married to this woman?
Who is Marie Antoinette?
200
This group was the First Estate and held only 10% of the land in France.
What is clergy under the Roman Catholic Church?
200
She wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman.
Who is Olympe de Gauges?
300
Belgium defeat that ended Napoleon's last bid for power.
What is Waterloo?
300
Jean Paul Marat and Georges Danton were members of this group known for their speeches.
What is the Jacobin Club?
300
This was the cause in which King Louis spent the money he borrowed.
What is helping American revolutionaries against the British?
300
This movement that swept through England started the call for change in the Old Regime.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
The Reign of Terror was this man's handy work.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
400
strategy utilized by the Fourth Coalition into Russia burning grain fields and murdering cattle.
What is scorched-earth policy?
400
This man wanted to restore Royal families to the throne, surround France with strong countries, and restore a blance of power.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?
400
Estates-General was called to order because King Louis attempted to do this.
What is tax the aristocrats or Second Estate?
400
The Third Estate is made up of peasants, workers, and this group of artisans and merchants.
What is bourgeosie?
400
If a member of society was foundy guilty of a crime, specifically an act of treason, this would be their punishment.
What is the guillotine?
500
This war began when Spain refused to let France move through in order to attack Portugal.
What is the Peninsular War?
500
Conservatives not looking for much political change.
Who are Emigres?
500
This clergyman suggested the Third Estate develop their own rules for the French people under the National Assembly.
What is the Abbe Sieyes?
500
classifications of people into groups is this system from the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
500
Napoleon was given power under a new consitution approved by this, the vote of the people.
What is plebiscite?