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Let's Start at the Very Beginning...
Vive la Révolution!
To the LEFT, to the RIGHT
Which came first?
WiLd CaRd
100
Which estate did members of the nobility belong to?
The Second Estate
100

Name the king and queen of France at the start of the French Revolution.

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

100
What group sat on the left of the Legislative Assembly?
Radicals!
100

The French Revolution or the American Revolution?

The American Revolution

100

Name three countries that will be featured on next week's South America Map Quiz!

Correct potential answers include... 

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
French Guiana (actually part of France still), Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

200
The _____________________ was the social and political system in France before the French Revolution. It divided French society into three estates.
Old Regime
200

What happened on July 14, 1789 when Parisians stormed a prison in an effort to gain weapons & materials for the revolutionary cause! This hinted at the violence of the resolution and is not celebrated as a national holiday.

Bastille Day 

200
The __________________ were members of a radical political organization. They took power during the Reign of Terror.
Jacobins
200
Bastille Day, or the Tennis Court Oath?
Tennis Court Oath
200
Which state in the United States has the longest coastline?
Alaska
300
At the ________________________, members of the National Assembly pledged to one another that they would create a new constitution for France.
Tennis Court Oath
300

What political cartoon technique uses comparison between the way things are, and the way things should be?

Irony

300

The __________ were people who sat on the right of the Legislative Assembly, and supported the monarchy and little change to the French government.

Conservatives

300
the Reign of Terror or the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
300
A technique used by political cartoonists is ____________________, when they overdo physical characteristics of people or things to make a point.
Exaggeration
400

Who were the bourgeoisie?

Members of the new French middle class, who had money and improved social standing but were limited as members of the Third Estate prior to the revolution

400

What was one right included in the Declaration of  the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?

(Answers may vary)

400
_____________________ was the head of the Committee of Public Safety, and used the guillotine to kill “enemies” of the Revolution.
Maximilien Robespierre
400
The Directory or the beheading of King Louis XVI?
the beheading of King Louis XVI
400

Name the song OR artist that starts with the follow lyric...

"Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you"

Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" 

500

What were two long term causes of the French Revolution?

1. inequalities in French society 2. debt (wars & Versailles) 3. Enlightenment ideas 4. Inspiration from the United States 5. Poor harvests 6. Increase in bread prices -> inflation

500

Name one event that signaled the start of the French Revolution

Answers may vary!

- 3rd Estate voting to become the National Assembly

- Tennis Court Oath

- Bastille Day

- Great Fear

- DOROMAC... 

500

What was the slogan of the revolutionaries? 

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! 

500

the beheading of King Louis XVI or Napoleon's coup d'etat? 

the beheading of King Louis XVI

500
What political cartoon technique is a comparison between two unlike things
Analogy