Causes of the Revolution
uring the period of 1789 to the late 1790s, under the leadership of Napoleon,
French citizens were unsatisfied with their France’s current political landscape and
wanted to annihilate centuries-old traditions such as________and __________.
https://www.history.com/topics/france/french-revolution
What are absolute monarchies and the feudal system?
It was originally the hunting lodge of King Louis XIII and was transformed into a spectacular residence by his son Louis XIV. He built the Grand Apartment of the king and queen which included the Hall Of Mirrors before moving the court and government of France to_________ in 1682 and remained until the Revolution in 1789.
https://www.historyhit.com/guides/the-ultimate-guide-to-french-revolution-sites/
What is The Palace of Versailles?
Craftsmen and store owners of Paris who were part of the Third Estate participated in ___________ because they were worried that the French army was preparing for an attack. They took muskets from the Hotel des Invalides and let loose the prisoners of________because they were rumored to be political prisoners oppressed by the king.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/storming_of_the_bastille.php
What was the Storming Of The Bastille?
People had to be careful of everything they said, what they did, and who they talked to. The slightest hint of opposition to the revolutionary government meant death by___________.
http://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/reign_of_terror.php
What is a guillotine?
General in the French army and leader of the 799 that overthrew the directory. His accession marked the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of Napoleonic France and Europe.
https://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/key-people/
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
At the close of the 18th century, France was roped in with the American revolution, and money was spent frivolously by __________ and his predecessor leaving France on the verge of bankruptcy, and the ruler unable to provide.
Who was King Louis XIV?
One of the largest squares in Paris. During the Revolution Kind Louis XIV, his wife Marie Antoinette, and other members of the French aristocracy were executed by guillotine on this spot.
https://www.viator.com/blog/article/Top-French-Revolution-Sites-Paris/l162
What is the Place de la Concorde?
In the summer of 1789, a wave of peasant riots and violence swept through France because of rural panic and rumors about mobile gangs of thieves who were reported to be rampaging through the countryside, raiding villages, stealing grain, and were paid to do so by royalists. Many peasants responded by arming themselves and mobilizing to defend their property. Some went further and engaged in revolutionary violence, taking to the road, looting the châteaux of landed aristocrats, and destroying feudal contracts.
What was the Great Fear?
A wave of killings in Paris during the summer of 1792, triggered by Fear that foreign and royalist armies would attack Paris and that the inmates of the city’s prisons would be free and join them.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/the-reign-of-terror/
What was the September Massacres?
The French king from 1774-1792 was deposed during the French revolution and executed in 1793.
https://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/key-people/
Who was King Louis XVI?
In 1789 the French government was in terrible debt because of the king borrowing large amounts of money to maintain his lavish lifestyle, fight Great Britain in the
Seven Years War and help the Americans in the Revolutionary war. France so deep in debt, The king had no choice but to_______________while the nobles and clergy were exempt.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/causes_of_the_french_revolution.php
What is raising taxes for commoners?
Best known for housing the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte. Its gold dome is a recognizable part of the Paris skyline.
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What is Les Invalides?
Political protests were outlawed so the middle class started___________. They were intended to avoid the governmental restriction on political meetings and provide a legal outlet for popular criticism of the regime. When______ was made illegal they revolted and fighting broke out between the citizens and the Parisian municipal guards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848#Events_of_February
What was the Banquet Campaign?
After the storming of the Bastille four years earlier, the government was constantly changing and by 1793 they were in a state of crisis as France was attacked by foreign countries when________________ took over the government and began the Reign Of Terror.
http://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/reign_of_terror.php
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
King Louis's wife, the primary symbol of the French royal's extravagance and excess. She was executed in 1793, wearing a peasant’s dress.
https://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev/key-people/
Who was Marie-Antoinette?
For hundreds of years, the people of France aimlessly followed the king,
thinking that they did not have the power to change their circumstances. In the
1700s cultural ideas began to shift and the________________made new ideas
like liberty and equality.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/causes_of_the_french_revolution.php
What was the Era Of Enlightenment?
It originally formed part of the 13th century, Palais de Justice, until the 1350s.
its judicial function took on a different role when it was transformed into a prison
that sent thousands of people to the guillotine. Some of its most famous inmates include François Ravaillac, the assassin of King Henri IV, imprisoned there in 1610, revolutionaries Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, and, most prominently, Queen Marie Antoinette. Each was then executed.
https://www.historyhit.com/guides/the-ultimate-guide-to-french-revolution-sites/
What is La Conciergerie?
On the morning of October 5, 1789, a large group of women in a Paris marketplace began to revolt because they were angry that the rich people got to eat white bread while they had to eat brown bread that was little in supply and very expensive.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/womens_march_on_versailles.php
What was The Women's March On Versailles?
___________ called for the immediate detention of anyone in one of six categories. Anything from hoarding grain, harboring suspects, evading the levée en masse (conscription), possessing subversive documents, even speaking critically of the government could lead to a charge.
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/french-revolution-documents/
What was the Law of Suspects?
The youngest of the deputies elected to the National Convention in 1792. He came to prominence when he gave a fiery speech at the Convention condemning King Louis XVI. He demanded that “Louis Capet” should be judged not as a king or even a citizen, but as a traitor, an enemy who deserves death. He became a close ally of Robespierre. Saint-Just was dubbed the “Angel of Death” as he became the face of Terror with his organization of the arrests and prosecutions of many well-known figures of the Revolution.
Who was Louis Antoine de Saint-Just?
King Louis XIV had been losing power and authority in the French government and was clashing with the commoners and nobles. Because the king was oblivious to how bad the situation was commoners, the members of the_________formed the_____________ to force the king to make reforms.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/french_revolution/causes_of_the_french_revolution.php
What were the Third Estate and the National Assembly?
It was originally the home of the governors of Ancient Rome before it became the residence of the French monarchy. In April 1793 it became the home of the revolutionary tribunal, the fearsome court of the French Revolution from which the Reign Of Terror was carried out.
https://www.historyhit.com/guides/the-ultimate-guide-to-french-revolution-sites/
What is The Palais de Justice?
It was originally the home of the governors of Ancient Rome before it became the residence of the French monarchy. In April 1793 it became the home of the revolutionary tribunal, the fearsome court of the French Revolution from which the Reign Of Terror was carried out.
https://www.historyhit.com/guides/the-ultimate-guide-to-french-revolution-sites/
What is The Palais de Justice?
Robespierre declared a new religion called__________ and carried out a series of celebrations around the new faith despite many people’s objections to it.
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/french-revolution-documents/
What was the Law of Suspects?
Was a Roman Catholic abbe influenced by the ideologies of the political thinkers of the age of enlightenment? He wrote a pamphlet titled “What Is The Third Estate?” where he asserted the third estate wanted a genuine representative in the governing nation.
Who was Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes?