Key People
This French king was executed by guillotine during the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
This oath was taken by members of the Third Estate who promised to write a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This estate was made up of the clergy and was exempt from paying taxes.
What is the First Estate?
This device became the symbol of the Revolution, used for beheadings.
What is the guillotine?
This Caribbean nation became the first to gain independence from European control.
What is Haiti?
He led the Reign of Terror and wanted to create a “Republic of Virtue.”
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This famous prison was stormed on July 14, 1789, marking the start of the Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
This estate was made up of the nobility, also exempt from taxes.
What is the Second Estate?
The rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man did not extend to this group.
Who are Woman?
One leading cause of the French Revolution was a severe shortage of..
What is food?
This French general staged a coup d’état and crowned himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This period was marked by mass executions and fear of “traitors to the Revolution.”
What is the Reign of Terror?
This estate formed the National Assembly and represented the common people.
What is the Third Estate?
Place the leaders of the French in the correct order.
What is Louis XVI → Robespierre → Napoleon
Napoleon sold this massive North American territory to the United States.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This group was a radical political club that pushed the Revolution to extremes.
Who are the Jacobins?
Napoleon suffered his final defeat at this battle in Belgium.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This radical governing committee carried out executions during the Reign of Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
This time period was influenced by Enlightenment ideas about reason and equality.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
This nation’s revolution was sparked in part by the Declaration of Independence.
What is the French Revolution?
This American president purchased Louisiana from Napoleon in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This country used a “scorched earth” strategy that led to Napoleon’s disastrous retreat.
What is Russia?
About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the First and Second Estates combined?
What is 3%?
The National Assembly swore this famous oath after being locked out by the king.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Both the American and French revolutions fought against this type of ruler.
What is an absolute monarch?