French Revolution - main

Question 1

original reason for the start of the French Revolution

Answer 1

fiscal crisis (dept)

Question 2

King of French Rev

Answer 2

Louis XVI

Question 3

date for Louis XVI

Answer 3

1700s

Question 4

wife of Louis XVI

Answer 4

Marie Antoinette

Question 5

“house of representatives” with unfare ratio of voters from 3 estates - of the ancien regime

Answer 5

estates general

Question 6

oath taken by 3rd estate/ex-estates generals to resist king and vote/meet - symbolic first act of revolution

Answer 6

Oath of Tennis Court (1789)

Question 7

what estates general wanted to be called after Oath of Tennis Court

Answer 7

National Assembly

Question 8

army for National Assembly

Answer 8

National Gaurd

Question 9

French general for National Gaurd

Answer 9

Lafauette

Question 10

date for Lafauette

Answer 10

late 1700s

Question 11

how the National Gaurd got weapons; is the symbolic/violent start of French rev

Answer 11

Storming of Bastile (1789)

Question 12

statement of beliefs abt human rights; pro pop. sovereignty and religious tolerance

Answer 12

Declaration of Rights of Man (1789)

Question 13

women-led mob to castle against Marie and for King to see terrible shape of Paris

Answer 13

March on Versailles (1789)

Question 14

-ism against clergy/their power but not against church overall

Answer 14

anticlericalism

Question 15

symbol of freedom (clothing piece)

Answer 15

Phrygian cap (liberty cap)

Question 16

act for clergy to be elected and not chosen by pope

Answer 16

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Question 17

result of Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 17

split in France (two Frances)

Question 18

The “two Frances”

Answer 18

red France - left, liberal, pro rev
white France - right. conservative, against rev

Question 19

a way gov tried to help dept

Answer 19

uses paper money - but causes inflation

Question 20

Louis XVI and Marie flee from Paris

Answer 20

Flight to Varennes

Question 21

immigrants / nobles leaving France with goal of returning to overthrow king (?)

Answer 21

emigres

Question 22

statement that other countries would war with France if they dont restore the kings power

Answer 22

Declaration of Pillnitz

Question 23

name for 3 main events in French Revolution in 1792

Answer 23

the 2nd Revolution

Question 24

3 events of the 2nd Rev

Answer 24

Storming of Tuileries Palace,
September Massacres,
National Convention

Question 25

Storiming of Tuileries Palace

Answer 25

mob gets king and queen in jail

Question 26

September Massacres

Answer 26

conservative prisoners killed

Question 27

National Convention

Answer 27

new governing body that ended monarchy and put king on trial for treason

Question 28

device used to kill ppl in rev

Answer 28

guillotine

Question 29

12 men from National Convention given direct powers

Answer 29

Committee of Public Safety

Question 30

rebellion of conservative catholics in W France

Answer 30

Revolt in the Vendee

Question 31

3 aspects of total war

Answer 31

conscription - military draft mobilization - gov taking over economy propaganda - media manipulating pop

Question 32

song that becomes new french national anthem; symbol of rev

Answer 32

La Marseillaise

Question 33

time period when courts fine/kill ANYONE against rev

Answer 33

The Reign of Terror

Question 34

date for Reign of Terror

Answer 34

1790s

Question 35

revolutionary group; ended monarchy and slavery

Answer 35

Jackobin Club

Question 36

name for 3 main radicals of Jackobins

Answer 36

the Mountain

Question 37

Mountain member - "villian of rev"; pro reign of terror but against slavery

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Maximilien Robespierre

Question 38

Mountain member - doc to journalist; killed in bathtub for being pro reign of terror

Answer 38

Jean-Paul Marat

Question 39

killer of Jean-Pail Marat

Answer 39

Charlotte Corday

Question 40

Mountain member - switches fro pro ROT to against but still killed

Answer 40

Georges Danton

Question 41

3 ppl of the Mountain

Answer 41

(Georges) Danton (Jean-Paul) Marat (Maximilien) Robespierre

Question 42

painter; painted Marat's death, Napoleon, etc

Answer 42

Jacques-Louis David

Question 43

move in rev back towards conservative direction

Answer 43

Thermidorian Reaction

Question 44

new constitution made in Thermidorian Reaction; ends ROT, restricts voting, okays catholicism

Answer 44

The Directory

Question 45

date for The Directory

Answer 45

1790s

Question 46

-ism for lessening gap between social groups

Answer 46

socialism

Question 47

members of working class; radical clothes

Answer 47

sans-culotte