vocabulary
Enlightenment
Causes of the French Revolution
Reforms by the National Assembly
French Revolution
100
What is estate?
A persons rank in French society
100
What is another term for England's Revolution?
What is England's Glorious Revolution or Bloodless Revolution.
100
What did France have to do to pay for wars it had fought?
What is borrow money from European banks.
100
What are the 3 freedoms granted by the National Assembly
What are freedom of: speech, religion, press
100
Who (2 groups) storms Versailles?
What are women and the National Guard
200
Bourgeoisie ?
What is another word for middle class?
200
What type of art became popular at the end of the Enlightenment?
What is Baroque
200
Which monarchs were accused of extravagant spending?
Who are King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
200
What is the name of the constitution created by the National Assembly?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
200
Where did Louis XVI try to escape to?
What is Austria
300
What is tricolor?
What is the French Flag created during the French Revolution?
300
What did Catherine the Great do to better people's lives?
What are establish schools/made political reforms
300
Why did bread become expensive and scarce?
What is poor weather.
300
What does it mean to tithe?
What is to give 1/10th of earnings to the Catholic church.
300
Whose firing caused the storming of the Bastille?
Who is Jacques Necker
400
What is the definition of concordant
An agreement between a pope and a monarch (or other head of state)
400
Name a musician who became popular during the Enlightenment.
What is Bach or Handel
400
Which estate paid taxes?
What is the Third Estate?
400
Who are the true rulers of France?
What are laws
400
What were the fears of the new government during the (2)
What is that the old 2nd estate would try and take over again. Other countries would declare war to support the old 2nd estate
500
What is an emigre?
A person who left France after the fall of Louis XVI and later returned.
500
What do you call an absolute monarch who begins to implement Enlightenment ideals?
What is an enlightened despot.
500
Which people are in each estate?
First-clergy Second-nobles/aristocracy Third-peasants/bourgeois/artisans
500
What slogan to represent the new ideas is created?
What is Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
500
What would happen if you spoke out against the government during the Reign
What is you were arrested, given a mock trial, and beheaded