Stage 2/Radical Stage 1792-1795

Question 1

How did the Wars of French Revolution begin?

Answer 1

Legislative Assembly declared war on Austria in response to King Leopold’s threat

Question 2

1792 September Massacres

Answer 2

Citizens feared Prussia -> kill king’s guard in Tuillers (counter-revolution)

Question 3

July 1792 Brunswick Manifesto

Answer 3

Issued by Prussian commander threatened the citizens of Paris if there was harm to Louis XVI

Question 4

First Coalition

Answer 4

Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Prussia, Spain

Question 5

National Convention 1792

Answer 5

Elected to replace Legislative Assembly, declared France a republic, divided into Girondists and the Mountain

Question 6

Girondists

Answer 6

Moderate group

Question 7

the Mountain

Answer 7

Led by Robespierre & Danton, radical faction of Jacobins

Question 8

Royal Execution January 1793

Answer 8

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed by Robespierre

Question 9

Sans-Culottes

Answer 9

Laboring poor of Paris, men wore trousers instead of fancy breeches, are militant radicals

Question 10

the Commune

Answer 10

Willing to kill for republic, defy LegAssem, don’t fight in was w Austria until they settle the fight internally in France

Question 11

1793 National Convention

Answer 11

Declare war on Britain, Dutch Republic, Spain

Question 12

1793 Committee of Public Safety

Answer 12

Deal with domestic and foreign threats to the revolution, led by Robespierre, launched Reign of Terror

Question 13

1793 Republic of Virtue

Answer 13

Made by Committee of Public Safety to de-Christianize France, alienated Catholic population

Question 14

1794 National Convention/Thermidorian Reaction

Answer 14

Robespierre and Danton executed, public opinion turned against Reign of Terror

Question 15

1795-99 Directory

Answer 15

5 member executive, established by National Convention to run the government

Question 16

“Vindication of the Free Rights of Man” by Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 16

Rejected Burke’s thinking

Question 17

“Declaration of the Rights of Women” by Olympe de Gouges

Answer 17

Women born free and equal to men. Mirrored Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 18

Revolutionary Political Culture

Answer 18

Common language, tradition = national unity

Question 19

Joseph de Maistre

Answer 19

Didn’t like Enlightenment, believed in monarchy, divine right, and didn’t want people to govern themselves