The Revolt
What famous prison did angry Parisians storm on July 14, 1789?
What is the Bastille?
In what year did the French Revolution begin?
What was 1789?
What was the name of the period of extreme violence during the French Revolution from 1793 to 1794?
What was The Reign of Terror.
What financial problem left the French government deeply in debt before the Revolution?
What is Government debt and a financial crisis.
Who paid the most taxes in the Estate System?
What is Third Estate?
What was the name of the representative assembly formed by members of the Third Estate who wanted a new constitution?
The National Assembly.
Who was the king of France when the French Revolution began?
Who was King Louis XVI?
Which radical revolutionary leader became closely associated with the Reign of Terror?
Who is Maximillian Robespierre?
What Enlightenment idea encouraged people to question the authority of absolute monarchs?
What was Natural rights, popular sovereignty, or the belief that government should protect people's rights and derive its authority from the people.
What were the First and Second Estate made up of?
The Clergy, Nobles, and Royalty (King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette)
What oath did members of the Third Estate take, promising not to separate until France had a constitution?
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
What document, adopted in 1789, declared that men were born free and equal in rights?
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Why did the Committee of Public Safety execute thousands of people during the Reign of Terror?
What is the Revolutionary leaders sought to eliminate suspected enemies of the Revolution and protect the revolutionary government from internal and external threats?
What economic problem caused many French citizens to struggle to afford bread before the Revolution?
Bread shortages and rising food prices, worsened by poor harvests and economic hardship.
What was the name of the pledge taken by the Third Estate near the Palace of versaille to never separate until a written constitution for France could be established?
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
What was the name of the uprising in which Parisian women marched to Versailles in October 1789 to demand bread and force the royal family to return to Paris?
What was the Women's March on Versailles.
What military leader rose to power after the French Revolution and eventually became emperor of France?
Who is Napoleon?
How did the Reign of Terror demonstrate the dangers of radical revolutionary change?
What is it showed how a movement seeking liberty and equality could become violent and oppressive when leaders used fear, executions, and repression to maintain power?
How did France's participation in the American Revolution contribute to the financial crisis that helped cause the French Revolution?
What was France borrowed heavily to help the American colonists defeat Britain, adding to its existing debt and worsening its financial crisis.
Why was the Third Estate unhappy with the French estate system?
What was the Third Estate carried much of the tax burden, had limited political influence, and lacked the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and nobility. ?
Why did members of the 3rd Estate stormed the Bastille?
What is to get ammunition/weapons for the revolt?
What was the name of the period when Napoleon returned to power in 1815 before his final defeat at Waterloo?
What was The Hundred Days.
What device was commonly used to execute people during the Reign of Terror?
What was the guillotine?
Explain how social inequality, economic hardship, and Enlightenment ideas combined to cause the French Revolution.
What was The Third Estate resented social and tax inequalities, rising food prices created hardship, and Enlightenment ideas encouraged people to challenge absolute monarchy and demand equal rights and greater political representation.
Why did the voting system of the Estates-General create conflict between the Third Estate and the First and Second Estates?
What was they were always outvoted?