Crisis
This staple food’s rising price fueled riots and unrest.
What is bread?
The Revolution led to the execution of this queen, accused of extravagance.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The Revolution indirectly led France to sell this vast territory to the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
King of France executed during the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
This “humane” machine became the Revolution’s most famous symbol of justice.
What is the guillotine?
France’s involvement in this foreign conflict worsened its financial crisis.
What is the American Revolution?
This assembly was called in 1789 after not meeting for 175 years.
What is the Estates-General?
The French Revolution directly inspired this later European conflict led by Napoleon.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
This general rose to power after the Revolution and crowned himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This phrase became the Revolution’s motto: “Liberty, Equality, …”
What is Fraternity?
This financial practice allowed nobles to avoid paying taxes while peasants carried the burden.
What is tax exemption (or tax farming)?
This document, inspired by Enlightenment thought, declared rights for all men.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This country across the ocean was inspired by France to begin its own revolution in 1791.
What is Haiti?
This revolutionary leader became known as “the Incorruptible.”
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
France celebrates its revolution on this date as its national holiday. (Bastille Day)
What is July 14?
Poor harvests in these years (just before 1789) caused widespread famine and discontent.
What are the late 1780s?
The king attempted to flee France in this event, eroding public trust.
What is the Flight to Varennes?
The Revolution abolished this system of forced labor and privilege.
What is feudalism?
He was a fiery journalist and radical voice, often writing from his bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
Revolutionaries replaced the Gregorian Calendar with this.
What is the “Republican Calendar”?
This financial minister’s dismissal by the king angered the people and helped spark the storming of the Bastille.
Who is Jacques Necker?
This radical Parisian group symbolized working-class revolutionaries.
Who are the sans-culottes?
Revolutionary ideals influenced this 19th-century wave of European uprisings.
What are the Revolutions of 1848?
This revolutionary figure was executed for her outspoken advocacy for women’s rights
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
Revolutionaries renamed this Cathedral as the “Temple of Reason.”
What is Notre-Dame de Paris?