French Revolution
The social group that made up most of France’s population and paid most of the taxes before the Revolution.
What is the Third Estate
How many continents are there in the world
7
The storming of which fortress symbolised the start of the French Revolution
What is the Bastille
The country Napoleon led as emperor after the Revolution.
What is France?
The economic system in which the means of production are privately owned for profit.
What is capitalism
Who was the king of France when the French Revolution began?
Louis XVI
What was the name of the period where thousands were executed by guillotine in 1793–1794?
The new representative body formed by the Third Estate after breaking away from the Estates-General in 1789
What is the National Assembly?
Napoleon’s legal reform that created a clear and uniform set of laws in France.
What is the Napoleonic Code?)
The system developed in response to industrial capitalism, where the state or public owns major industries
What is socialism
Who led the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?
Robespierre)
What term describes the 19th-century shift from farms to factories and machines producing goods?
Industrialization
The violent event on July 14, 1789, symbolizing the start of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The military defeat in 1815 that ended Napoleon’s rule
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
The radical form of socialism introduced by Marx and Engels in 1848
What is capitalism
Which French queen was criticised for her spending and executed in 1793?
Marie Antoinette
The promise made by the National Assembly to keep meeting until France had a constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The period of Napoleon’s return from exile before being defeated once again
What is the Hundred Days?
The idea that governments should not interfere in the economy and should allow free trade.
What is laissez-faire?
If an electric train is moving north at 55 km/h and the wind is blowing east at 10 km/h, in which direction does the smoke blow?
Electric trains don’t make smoke