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French Revolution I
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Napoleon
Haitian Revolution
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This representative assembly was called by Louis XVI in the spring of 1789 for the first time in 175 years.
What is the Estates General?
100
The motto of the French Revolution:
What is Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!
100
The month and date of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen:
What is August, 1789?
100
Birthplace of Napoleon:
What is Corsica?
100
The military hero of the Haitian Revolution:
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
200
French society in the Ancien Regime was organized into these:
What is the three estates?
200
The social group most responsible for pushing the French Revolution in a radical direction from 1792-1794:
What is the sans-culottes?
200
The dates of the radical revolution:
What is 1792-1794?
200
A democratic tool used by Napoleon to assume greater authoritarian powers:
What is a plebiscite?
200
Society in Saint Domingue was divided up into these three main groups"
Who are white planters, free coloreds and slaves?
300
The government created by the constitution of 1791:
What is a constitutional monarchy?
300
Fear of foreign invasion, another one of the factors that pushed the French Revolution in a more radical direction beginning in 1792, was exacerbated by this declaration by the monarchies of Austria and Prussia:
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?
300
The year that Napoleon became emperor of France:
What is 1804?
300
The reform carried out by Napoleon to "heal the wounds" of the French Revolution with the Catholic Church:
What is the Concordat of 1801?
300
He protested to the National Assembly in 1790 that his rights as a free colored should be restored in Saint Domingue:
Who is Vincent Oge?
400
During the Great Fear, peasants in France attacked their lords and destroyed documents, in an attempt to protest and eliminate these:
What are feudal dues and taxes?
400
The group of Jacobins within the National Convention who wanted to execute King Louis XVI and who were willing to work closely with the sans-culottes:
What is the Mountain?
400
The dates of the two constitutions promulgated during the French Revolution:
What is 1791 and what is 1795?
400
The three major blunders that brought down Napoleon's empire:
What is the Continental System, the invasion of Spain and the invasion of Russia?
400
Toussaint L'Ouverture fought for this country before he began to fight for the French:
What is Spain?
500
This action by the National Assembly in 1790 was probably their greatest blunder and created deep resentment toward the French Revolution:
What is the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
500
During the reign of Terror, the part of France where there was the highest concentration of counter-revolutionaries:
What is the Vendee?
500
The month and year of Louis XVI's execution:
What is January, 1793?
500
Wherever Napoleon went in Europe, these reforms and ideas also went with him:
What is abolition of feudal dues and serfdom, and what is reactive nationalism?
500
After finally defeating the French forces in 1804, he declared the independence of Saint Domingue and the creation of Haiti:
Who is Jean Jacques Dessalines?