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Estates
People
Places
Napoleon
Revolution
100
The group of people that made up the 1st Estate.
Who is the clergy?
100
Madame Deficit, hated by the French people, Austrian-born queen
Who is Marie Antoinette?
100
A luxurious palace that symbolized the wealth of the monarchy.
What is Versailles?
100
The organization of French Law.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
100
This prison was stormed on July 17, 1789, beginning the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
200
The group of people that made up the 2nd Estate.
Who is the nobility?
200
He led the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
200
The site of Napoleon's first exile in 1814.
What is Elba?
200
A naval defeat for Napoleon; he was trying to invade Great Britain.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
200
This was created to provide equality for French executions.
What is the guillotine?
300
The groups of people that were a part of the 3rd Estate.
Who are the bougeoisie, artisans, merchants, peasants, etc.
300
Public did not trust him, put country in debt, tried to flee country.
Who is Louis XVI?
300
The site of Napoleon's final defeat June 18, 1815.
What is Waterloo?
300
Napoleon's greatest defeat, lost 95% of his men; he never recovered.
What is the Invasion of Russia?
300
A time period at the start of the Revolution during which peasants and nobles feared the breakdown of law and order.
What is the Great Fear?
400
The payment the 3rd Estate made to the clergy.
What is a tithe?
400
Wealthy elite members of French society; very privileged upper-upper class.
Who is the aristocracy?
400
The site of Napoleon's second exile, this time for good.
What is St. Helena?
400
The time period after Napoleon's first exile when he returned as Emperor.
What is the Hundred Days?
400
Gave all male citizens personal freedoms and liberties.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
500
The time period in which the 3 estates were ruled by an absolute monarch.
What is the Old Regime?
500
The French middle class.
Who is the bourgeoisie?
500
The site of a meeting of European delegates to restore order to Europe in 1815.
What is Vienna?
500
Economic warfare against Great Britain; naval blockade.
What is the Continental System?
500
Time period during which opponents of the Revolution were executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?