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100
Who said "What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it want to be? Something"?
Abbe Sieyes
100
Which year was the estates-general convened
1789
100
Parisian masses storm a notorious prison
The storming of the Bastille
100
What legislative body was rigged against the third estate?
The Estates-General
100
What was the main political organization the leaders of the revolution belonged to?
The Jacobin Club
200
What was the name of the King overthrown and later executed in the revolution?
King Louis XVI
200
When did working class women march on the Versailles Palace and capture the King?
1789
200
Representatives of the third estate issue a document outlining their political program
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
200
Which war heavily indebted the French state in the lead-up to the revolution?
The Seven Years War
200
What was The Mountain?
A left-wing faction of the Jacobin club
300
Who was a prominent woman revolutionary intellectual who had a major influence on later thought during the revolutionary period?
Emilie du Chatelet
300
When did the royal family try to flee?
1791
300
The execution of Robespierre ushers in this more conservative period of the revolution
The Thermidorian Reaction
300
What king of materials became more accessibly, aiding the dissemination of revolutionary ideology?
Written materials
300
Who were the Girondists?
A more conservative faction of the Jacobin Club
400
Who was the leader of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women?
Pauline Leon
400
What year did the Directory assume state power?
1795
400
A wave of violence directed at supporters of the old regime
The terror
400
How did the French masses perceive the royal family?
They were widely-hated and lost legitimacy
400
The organization of supporters of the Conspiracy of the Equals
The Society of the Pantheon
500
Who was the widely-hated Queen of France who was overthrown by the revolution?
Marie Antoinette
500
When did Napoleon Bonaparte seize power in a coup?
1799
500
A series of military conflicts break out between France and allied revolutionaries and the feudal regimes of Europe
The French Revolutionary Wars
500
Which social force was accumulating more and more economic power but were denied political power?
The bourgeoisie
500
What executive body of the French state led the country during the terror?
The Committee of Public Safety