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Question 1

Bourgeois

Answer 1

the middle class-bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans

Question 2

Emigres

Answer 2

nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution

Question 3

Estates general

Answer 3

-an assembly of representatives from all three estates

Question 4

First estate

Answer 4

First Estate - Church leaders

Question 5

Georges Danton

Answer 5

• a lawyer among the club’s most talented and passionate speakers

Question 6

Great fear

Answer 6

a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789

Question 7

Guillotine

Answer 7

• a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution
  Jean

Question 8

Jean Paul Marat

Answer 8

one of the most prominent Jacobins, as club members, were called this

Question 9

Left wing

Answer 9

people who want to radically change government

Question 10

Legislative assembly

Answer 10

people who want to radically change government

Question 11

Maximilian. Robespierre

Answer 11

A Jacobin leader who took absolute control of France and killed those who went against him.

Question 12

National Assembly

Answer 12

A French congress established by representatives of the third estate, who made laws and reforms.

Question 13

National Convention

Answer 13

a new legislature that abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic.

Question 14

Old regime

Answer 14

the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution.

Question 15

Right wing

Answer 15

people who want few or no changes in government often are called right wing or are said to be on the right.

Question 16

Sans culottes

Answer 16

a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a great voice in the government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages

Question 17

Second estate

Answer 17

Great lords

Question 18

Third estate

Answer 18

Commoners

Question 19

Plebiscite

Answer 19

direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject proposal.

Question 20

Scorched earth policy

Answer 20

the practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land.