chapter 17

Question 1

the “sun king” one of the longest reigns of any king in history

Answer 1

Louis XIV

Question 2

“l’etat c’est moi” (I am the state); a phrase said by Louis XIV; he believed that he was the ______ of France

Answer 2

Absolute Monarch

Question 3

appointed government officials

Answer 3

Bureaucrats

Question 4

“governments by men who sit at desks”; made up of the bourgeoisie

Answer 4

Bureaucracy

Question 5

the middle class

Answer 5

bourgeoisie

Question 6

a palace used to entertain and “distract” the nobles

Answer 6

Palace of Versailles

Question 7

17th and 18th century monarchical pursuit of unlimited power

Answer 7

age of absolutism

Question 8

minister of finance that mobilized France economics and trade

Answer 8

Jean Baptiste Colber

Question 9

founded Quebec (1st permanent french colony) in 1608

Answer 9

Samuel de Champlain

Question 10

explored the Mississippi river in 1682 and claimed it for france

Answer 10

Robert C. de la Salle

Question 11

France fought against most of Europe while louis tried to expand Frances borders

Answer 11

war of the league of Augsburg

Question 12

Louis’ grandson, Philip of Anjou was supposed to inherit the throne in Spain

Answer 12

War of the Spanish Succession

Question 13

most notable victory of the War of Spanish Succession

Answer 13

Battle of Blenheim

Question 14

ended the war of the spanish succession

Answer 14

treaty of Utrecht

Question 15

a time where philosophy changed the thinking of France

Answer 15

Age of enlightenment

Question 16

“Father of enlightenment”, Promoted the idea of rationalism

Answer 16

Voltaire

Question 17

man’s reason is the sole criterion for truth

Answer 17

rationalism

Question 18

“Father of French Romanticism”, Promoted Romanticism

Answer 18

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 19

man is basically good and society is bad

Answer 19

noble savages

Question 20

Louis XIV’s grandson, who became king

Answer 20

Louis XV (1715-1774)

Question 21

“Apres moi le deluge”

Answer 21

after me the deluge

Question 22

the French king at the beginning of the French revolution

Answer 22

Louis XIV

Question 23

the three french social classes

Answer 23

1. clergy
2. nobles
3. everyone else

Question 24

the 3rd estate left the estates general and their own representative assembly

Answer 24

national assembly

Question 25

a vow to meet until a constitution was written

Answer 25

the tennis court oath

Question 26

on July 14, 1789, the people of France stormed the castle of Bastille in Paris

Answer 26

storming of Bastille

Question 27

the national assembly and adopted the slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Death"

Answer 27

August 4 decree

Question 28

Frances 1st constitution created by the constituent assembly; France was now a constitutional monarchy; Frances first written constitution

Answer 28

Constitution of 1791

Question 29

the 3 main groups of the constitutional assembly

Answer 29

1. Right 2. center 3. left

Question 30

the divided group of the constitutional assembly; supported the king; didn't want to continue the revolution

Answer 30

right

Question 31

the divided group of the constitutional assembly; middle ground; didn't really care

Answer 31

center

Question 32

the divided group of the constitutional assembly; radicals who wanted a stronger revolution

Answer 32

left

Question 33

the constitutional assembly was replaced by ______ in 1792

Answer 33

National Convention

Question 34

which king was executed by guillotine

Answer 34

Louis XVI

Question 35

The _______ was led by Maximilien robespierre controlled France through terror and violence

Answer 35

committee of public safety

Question 36

about ____ people were executed during the reign of terror

Answer 36

40,000 people

Question 37

when was the reign of terror the bloodiest

Answer 37

at the same time the atheism was its peak

Question 38

rejected scripture and viewed God as an impersonal being revealed only in nature that must be sought through mens reason

Answer 38

deism

Question 39

a new government called _____ replaced the committee of public safety

Answer 39

the directory

Question 40

led the French army in campaigns in France, Italy, and Egypt during the revolution

Answer 40

Napoleon