French Revolution Flashcards
The cahiers prepared by members of the Third Estate in preparation for the meeting of the Estates-General were….
lists of requests and demands for political and social reforms.
Why were the representatives of the Third Estate unable to get their proposals accepted on most issues brought before the meetings of the Estates-General?
Each estate met separately to vote on a proposal then cast one vote, leaving the Third Estate outvoted by the First and Second Estates.
At the tennis court, members of the newly declared National Assembly took an oath promising to….
Give France a constitution
July 14th is a national holiday in France because it is the anniversary of the day during the Revolution when a Paris mob…
attacked and captured the Bastille fortress
The document issued by the National Assembly in 1789 that outlined many of the rights to which the French people entitled was called the….
Declaration of the Rights of Man
In the early years of the revolution, which social group most clearly felt that the changes that had occurred had not gone far enough?
Peasants
The members of the Jacobin Club in Paris used their influence to…
Forces the government to declare war on Austria and Prussia
What fate did King Louis XVI meet in early 1793?
He was found guilty of treason and executed
Some historians have argued that during the Reign of Terror, the National Convention that claimed to be acting in the name of liberty was, in fact acting as a……
Totalitarian dictatorship
The main purpose of the writings of the French philosophies was to….
Challenge accepted views regarding government, economics, religion, and life in general
Under the direction of the Committee of Public Safety, a Reign of Terror occurred and 20 000 people were guillotined because they were…..
Suspected of having committed treason
An important contribution to political thought provided by Montesquieu was the idea that….
There should be a separation of powers in government so no one branch of government has to much power.
For what primary purpose did a massive crowd of Parisian women march to the Palace of Versailles to see the king?
To demand the distribution of adequate supplies of bread
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were charged with treason shortly after they….
Made an attempt to escape from France
What is the sequence of how the new members of the National Assembly of 1791 arranged themselves, relative to the speakers chair, in the meeting hall?
Radicals were to the left, Moderates were in the middle, and Conservatives were to the right.
