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Madame Deficit
Who is Marie Antoinette
100
July 14th, 1789
What is storming of Bastille
100
Not much, these 2 complaints just became the 2 biggest motivators of the revolution Hint: Considered 1 of the Americans' complaints
What is taxation & representation
100
the 2 groups that make up the 3rd estate
What is peasants and bourgeoisie
100
Peasants made up this % of France's 26 million people
What is 80%
200
The Third Estate members organized themselves into this in 1789
What is National Assembly
200
June, 1789 after being locked out of their meeting space, the Third Estate representatives responded with this promise to meet until they had a new constitution
What is Tennis Court Oath
200
The Declaration came with this slogan of the revolution
What is liberty, equality, fraternity
200
1791 author of Declaration of Rights of Woman
Who is Olympe de Gouges
200
rumored that hearing and eyesight remained for 15 seconds after this device was used
What is Guillotine
300
This lawyer, who once praised & eloquently spoke to Louis XVI was later responsible for the King's beheading
Who is Maxemilien Robespierre
300
October, 1789, this event marked the signing of the Dec of Rights of Man & King & Queen's return to Paris
What is Women's March on Versailles
300
These 2 thinkers heavily influenced the French citizens in their quest for rights
Who are Voltaire and Rousseau
300
This war for the first defeat for Louis XIV in 40 years
What is War of Spanish Succession
300
You read Articles 10, 11, 12 of this list of complaints
What is Cahier
400
This King built Versailles
Who is Louis XIV
400
When this set in, none of the Nobles were safe. Peasants burned tax stations, and burned manors owned by Nobles.
What is Great Fear
400
this group of left wingers would eventually win over the government and chart a path of beheadings in France
Who are the Jacobins
400
Legislative Assembly had control over these 2 areas
What is financial and political
400
When speaking about the Third Estate, this member of the First Estate described the Third Estate as being "everything"
Who is Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
500
He authored L'Ami du peuple
Who is Jean Paul Marat
500
This event would be characterized as Louis XVI attempting to abandon his people
What is Flight to Varennes
500
Well, if it wasn't for this economic and political system, people may not have been totally distraught in 1789
What is feudalism
500
This King once declared "I am the State"
Who is Louis XIV
500
"Those without knee breeches" describes this group
What is sans-culottes