The French Revolution & Napoleon

Question 1

Estates

Answer 1

The clergy, nobility, and commoners

Question 2

1st estate

Answer 2

The clergy - priests/churches

Question 3

2nd estate

Answer 3

The nobility - nobles

Question 4

3rd estate

Answer 4

Commoners - everybody else(the working class)

Question 5

Estates-general

Answer 5

The representative assembly of the three “estates”

Question 6

Tennis Court Oat

Answer 6

The National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution.

Question 7

National assembly

Answer 7

Existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners)

Question 8

The Constitution of 1791

Answer 8

French constitution created by the National Assembly during the French Revolution.

Question 9

The directory

Answer 9

A five-member committee that governed France from November 1795 to November 1799,

Question 10

The bastille

Answer 10

Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantled the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs, on July 14, 1789.

Question 11

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Answer 11

Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights.

Question 12

Reign of Terror

Answer 12

A climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution (1789-99), which saw the public executions and mass killings of thousands of counter-revolutionary ‘suspects’ between September 1793 and July 1794.

Question 13

Suffrage

Answer 13

Suffrage rights were limited only to property-owning men.

Question 14

Olympe de Gouge

Answer 14

French social reformer and writer who challenged conventional views on a number of matters, especially the role of women as citizens

Question 15

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 15

Was created by the National Convention in 1793 with the intent to defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies, as well as to oversee the new functions of the executive government.

Question 16

Levee en Masse

Answer 16

The conscription of hundreds of thousands of French people into compulsory military service.

Question 17

Louis XVI

Answer 17

The last king of France before the fall of the monarchy

Question 18

Marie Antoinette

Answer 18

Queen of France from 1774 to 1793

“Let them eat cake!”

Question 19

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 19

A radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789.

Question 20

Moderate phase

Answer 20

liberal reforms transitioned France from a feudal state to a constitutional monarchy.

Question 21

Radicaal phase

Answer 21

France was made a republic, abolishing the monarchy and executing the king.

Question 22

Napoleon

Answer 22

A French military general and statesman.

Question 23

Congress of Vieanna

Answer 23

The Congress of Vienna was a meeting of European nations that set out a strategy to maintain peace and stability throughout the continent

Question 24

The Napoleonic Code

Answer 24

The 1804 Napoleonic Code, which influenced civil law codes across the world, replaced the fragmented laws of pre-revolutionary France, recognizing the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law (although not for women in the same sense as for men), and the secular character of the state.

Question 25

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 25

Fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon’s French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher.

Question 26

Bourgeoise

Answer 26

Anyone who lived in an urban area

Question 27

Proletariat

Answer 27

The social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work).