AP World- French Revolution

Question 0

Second Estate

Answer 0

• nobles (~ 300,000)
• organized hierarchically
• controlled about 30% of land
• held most administrative, judicial, military, and church positions

Question 1

First Estate

Answer 1

• clergy (~ 130,000)
• organized hierarchically
• paid few taxes
• wealth from tithes and ecclesiastical fees
• Church owned about 10% of the land

Question 2

Third Estate

Answer 2

• everyone else
• paid heavy taxes
• poverty was common
• formed the National Assembly
• did not have equal representation

Question 3

Bourgeoise

Answer 3

People who did not come from money, but earned a lot of the money; led the revolution

Question 4

Sieyes

Answer 4

• nobles were useless
• Third Estate was everything and should be the only estate
• Third Estate should have equal representation, more influence, and greater voice

Question 5

Robespierre

Answer 5

• terror and virtue

- Republican or Democratic government

Question 6

May 1789

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King Louis XVI calls the Estates General (a customary consultative body representing the three estates) that had not met since 1614

Question 7

June 1789

Answer 7

Formation of the National Assembly at the tennis court (Tennis Gurt Oath)

Question 8

July 14, 1789

Answer 8

Crowd attacked Bastille and seized arms and weapons

Question 9

August 1789

Answer 9

Feudalism is declared over & Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (DOROMAC)

Question 10

October 5, 1789

Answer 10

Women march to Versailles asking for bread (heard that Queen Marie Antoinette was hoarding food)

Question 11

November 1789

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All Church property goes to the State (sold for money)

Question 12

1790

Answer 12

Civil Constitution of Constitutional Monarchy says Church is under the state (upsets more common people)

Question 13

August 10, 1792

Answer 13

A crowd invaded King Louis XVI’s palace in Paris, forcing the king to seek protection in the Legislative Assembly, which suspended his authority and ordered his imprisonment; National Assembly

Question 14

September 21, 1792

Answer 14

Monarchy is abolished (Day 1 of the Republican/Metric Calender)

Question 15

January 1793

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Louis XVI is executed by the guillotine

Question 16

1793-1794

Answer 16

Robespierre and his followers unleashed the Reign of Terror

Question 17

National Convention

Answer 17

• new legislature of the French Republic
• almost all members were from middle class
• nearly all were Jacobins (the most uncompromising democrats)

Question 18

Girondists

Answer 18

Moderate radical

Question 19

The Mountains

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Another radical group that were more sympathetic than the Girondists to the demands of the Parisian working class and less patient with parliamentary procedure

Question 20

April 1793

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Committee for Public Safety (Robespierre’s terror) established

Question 21

May 1793

Answer 21

Maximum price for bread established

Question 22

August 1793

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Metric System adopted

Question 23

October 1793

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Republican Calendar established (backdating Day 1 to Sept. 21, 10 days a week) THEMITORIAN REACTION (change years and time)

Question 24

1794

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Day of inauguration of the Supreme Being (deism- belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe/ belief in something big but no holidays or celebrations)

Question 25

1799

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Napoleon seizes power, introduces new form of government- popular authoritarianism (18 Brumaire- when Napoleon takes control)

Question 26

Classic Liberalism

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Government helps rich, so poor want less government

Question 27

Modern Liberalism

Answer 27

Government helps poor, rich doesn't want government

Question 28

Olympe de Gouges

Answer 28

Wrote Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen; executed during the Terror