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Reign of Terror
Napoleon
100
This Cause of the French Revolution was shared with the American Revolution
What is high/unfair taxes?
100
What was the largest Estate in France?
What is the 3rd
100
A written plan of government
What is constitution
100
This man was the leader of the Reign of Terror
What is Robespierre
100

Napoleon declared himself this, and symbolically ended the French Revolution. 

What is the Emperor of France?

200
This cause of the Revolution was thanks to irresponsible spending by King Louis XVI on things such as wars and his Royal Court
What is Debt/bankruptcy
200

This estate was made up of nobility. 

What is the Second

200

List of grievances created by each estate during the Estates General. 

What are cahiers?

200
More people were executed in this manner than in any other
What is the guillotine
200

Name of Napoleon's first wife. 

Who was Josephine?
300

Ideas like separation of powers from the Enlightenment like this man surely contributed to the idea of revolution.

Who is Montesquieu? 

300

These Estates were asked by the King to pay taxes in order to help pull the country out of debt, they didn't want to. 

What is the 1st and 2nd

300
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety who was responsible for the Reign of Terror
Who is Robespierre?
300
A highlight of the Reign of Terror was the execution of this hated royal woman
Who is Marie Antoinette?
300
Napoleon suffered the greatest military blunder in history at the hands of this nation
What is Russia
400

Taken when the Third Estate vowed to continue to meet and write a new French Constitution.

What is the Tennis Court Oath?

400
This Estate numbered around 100,000 people
What is 1st
400

This group would ultimately go on to form the Committee of Public Safety. 

Who are the Jacobins?

400
The rolling of this man's head signaled the end of the terrifying times
Who is Robespierre
400

Napoleon was exiled to and would die on this island. 

What is St. Helena?

500

This was a war fought against Britain in North America. 

What is the French and Indian War? (Seven Years' War also OK)

500

This group off merchants, lawyers and bankers made up the higher end of the Third Estate.

What is the bourgeoise? 

500

Working men who didn't wear short pants. (English version is OK)

Who are the sans-cullote, or those without knee breeches?

500
Once the blood had stopped flowing, this 5 man group took control of France
What is The Directory
500

Napoleon's own self-proclaimed downfall was this. 

What is his ambition?