1 of 895 W.H.N.A. ENLIGHTENMENT AND FRENCH REVOLUTION STUDY GUIDE REVIEW

Question 1

AGE OF REASON”/ THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL/PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO OVERTHROW ABUSIVE AND UNJUST GOVERNMENTS.

Answer 1

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Question 2

ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS IN ACTION TO RID THE COLONISTS OF UNJUST RULE BY THE BRITISH KING.

Answer 2

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Question 3

INSPIRED BY THE AMERICAN COLONISTS, THE FRENCH OVERTHROW THE KING, THE NOBILITY, AND THE CHURCH.

Answer 3

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question 4

JULY 14, 1789 (BASTILLE DAY)

Answer 4

FRENCH INDEPENDENCE DAY

Question 5

FRENCH PRISON RAIDED ON 7/14/1789 FOR AMMUNITION AND WEAPONS. START OF THE REVOLUTION.

Answer 5

BASTILLE

Question 6

WRITTEN BY THE NEW “NATIONAL ASSEMBLY” PREVIOUSLY CALLED THE “3RD ESTATE”.

Answer 6

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN

Question 7

3 CHAMBERED LEGISLATIVE BODY. IT HAS NOT MET FOR 175 YEARS. MEETING CALLED TO SOLVE FINANCIAL CRISIS. NEW TAXES PROPOSED ON THE 1ST AND 2ND ESTATES.

Answer 7

ESTATES GENERAL

Question 8

THE CLERGY

Answer 8

FIRST ESTATE

Question 9

THE NOBILITY

Answer 9

SECOND ESTATE

Question 10

EVERYONE ELSE. 97-98% OF THE POPULATION OF FRANCE. 1ST AND 2ND ESTATES ALWAYS VOTE TOGETHER AGAINST THE 3RD ESTATE.

Answer 10

THIRD ESTATE

Question 11

COMES TO THE THROWN AT AGE 5. KNOWN AS THE “SUN KING”. BUILDER OF VERSAILLES PALACE. WANTS TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN “HIS PEOPLE” AND HIMSELF.

Answer 11

LOUIS XIV (14TH)

Question 12

DID NOT WANT TO DO THE “BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT”. HIS MISTRESS MADAME POMPADOUR WILL RUN THE COUNTRY WHILE HE “PARTIES”. DIES OF SMALL POX.

Answer 12

LOUIS XV (15TH)

Question 13

RULER DEPOSED AND EXECUTED FOR TREASON. A WEAK LEADER WHO OVERSPENT AND MISMANAGED THE FRENCH ECONOMY.

Answer 13

LOUIS XVI (16TH)

Question 14

AUSTRIAN PRINCESS/ MARRIES LOUIS 16TH FOR POLITICAL ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE/ QUEEN OF FRANCE, “MADAME DEFICIT”/ WILD FASHIONS AND HAIR STYLES/ EXECUTED FOR TREASON AND DEPLETING THE NATIONAL TREASURY. REPRESENTS EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE MONARCHY.

Answer 14

MARIE ANTOINETTE

Question 15

PUBLISHES PRO-REVOLUTION NEWSPAPER “FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE”. BELIEVES MORE KILLING WILL SOLVE THE REVOLUTION’S PROBLEMS/COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES.

Answer 15

JEAN PAUL MARAT

Question 16

LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION. LAWYER FOR THE POOR/ ENLIGHTENMENT BELIEVER. “THE TERROR” ENDS WITH HIS EXECUTION.

Answer 16

MAXIMILLION ROBESPIERRE

Question 17

FRENCH BANKS APPOINT HIM “FINANCE MINISTER” TO SOLVE THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. HE IS THE PEOPLES “MAN ON THE INSIDE”. WANTS 1ST AND 2ND ESTATES TO PAY TAXES. HIS FIRING LEADS TO REVOLT

Answer 17

JACQUES NECKER

Question 18

FORMALLY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE 3RD ESTATE

Answer 18

THE CONVENTION

Question 19

RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY GROUP. ROBESPIERRE IS A MEMBER.

Answer 19

JACOBINS

Question 20

MEANS “WITHOUT KNEE BRITCHES”/THEY ARE COMMON PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION/ BECOME A PARISIAN MILITIA WHICH MURDERS 1600 PEOPLE.

Answer 20

SANS CULOTTES

Question 21

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOWS TO MEET UNTIL A NEW CONSTITUTION IS WRITTEN.

Answer 21

TENNIS COURT OATH

Question 22

HUMANE (PAINLESS?) EXECUTION MACHINE. “ALL PEOPLE GET EQUAL TREATMENT”.

Answer 22

GUILLOTINE

Question 23

GROUP OF 12 MEN THAT RULE AS A COLLECTIVE DICTATORSHIP/ MARTIAL LAW DECLARED/ REPUBLICAN (DEMOCRATIC) GOVERNMENT IS DISMISSED/ THE COMMITTEE RULES BY TERROR

Answer 23

COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Question 24

THE REVOLUTION TAKES OVER THE CATHOLIC CHURCH/PRIESTS ARE NOW ELECTED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY, WHICH LATER ELIMINATES THE CHURCH/ NEW CALENDAR ELIMINATES “SUNDAYS”

Answer 24

DE-CHRISTIANIZATION AND THE NEW CALENDAR

Question 25

ALL OPPOSED TO THE REVOLUTION/CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN REGIONS OUTSIDE OF PARIS/MODERATES WANT THE KILLING STOPPED/ MASS EXECUTIONS OF COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES/ 100K’S KILLED

Answer 25

COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES

Question 26

COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY LEADS THE TERROR OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE/QUICK TRIALS AND EXECUTIONS/800 PEOPLE KILLED A MONTH DURING THE PEAK OF THE TERROR/ENDS WITH ROBESPIERRE’S EXECUTION

Answer 26

REIGN OF TERROR

Question 27

THINK THINGS THROUGH/ TALK AND NEGOTIATE DIFFERENCES/ NO OVER-REACTION.

Answer 27

RATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Question 28

ACT IMPULSIVELY/ NO FORETHOUGHT/ARGUE/FIGHT/EXPLOSIVE REACTIONS

Answer 28

IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Question 29

NEIGHBOR TO FRANCE/ MARIE ANTOINETTE USED FOR POLITICAL MARRIAGE/ FRANCE PREMPTIVELY DECLARES WAR ON AUSTRIA B/C EXPECTING AN ATTACK BY AUSTRIA

Answer 29

AUSTRIA

Question 30

ALLY OF AUSTRIA IN THE WAR AGAINST FRANCE/ MAJOR CONGTRIBUTION IN THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF “WATERLOO”

Answer 30

PRUSSIA

Question 31

NEW “GODDESS OF REASON” REPLACES THE OLD“GOD”. NEW RELIGION TO REPLACES CHRISTIANITY DESIGNED BY ROBESPIERRE. PEOPLE THINK HE IS “NUTS” (LOST HIS MIND)

Answer 31

THE CULT OF THE SUPREME BEING

Question 32

5 MEMBER RULING GROUP REPLACES THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY/OVERTHROWN BY NAPOLEON BONAPARTE/ REPLACED BY A 3 MEMBER CONSULATE/ NAPOLEON BECOMES “1ST CONSUL” AND THEN “EMPEROR” UNDER NEW CONSTITUTION RATIFIED BY PLEBICITE (A VOTE)

Answer 32

THE DIRECTORY

Question 33

TRANSLATES AS “BLOW TO THE STATE”/ OVERTHROW OF EXISTING GOVERNMENT, USUALLY BY THE MILITARY.

Answer 33

COUP D’ETAT (COUP)

Question 34

CORSICAN WHO VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FRENCH MILITARY/ ARTILLERY LEADER/BECOMES A WAR HERO BY SAVING THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT FROM COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES/ LEADS A COUP/ BECOMES EMPEROR OF FRANCE

Answer 34

NAPLOLEON BONAPARTE

Question 35

NAPOLEON’S GREATEST DOMESTIC ACHIEVEMENT- A UNIFORM OF LAWS FOR HIS EMPIRE

Answer 35

NAPOLEONIC CODE

Question 36

TACTIC PRACTICED BY THE FRENCH AND BRITISH TO STOP TRADE AND HURT EACHOTHER ECONOMICALLY

Answer 36

BLOCKADE

Question 37

NAPOLEON BONPARTEE’S PLAN TO MAKE HIS EMPIRE ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE “SELF-SUFFICIENT” AND HURT BRITAIN ECONOMICALLY. THE BRITISH SMUGGLE GOODS AND USE BLOCKADE TO HURT FRANCE. A FAILURE FOR NAPOLEON

Answer 37

CONTINENTAL SYSTEM

Question 38

NAPOLEON’S RETURN TO POWER FROM EXILE ON THE ISLAND OF ELBE

Answer 38

100 DAYS

Question 39

NAPOLEON’S FINAL DEFEAT BY A COALITION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS/ 50% OF THE WINNING FORCE ARE PRUSSIANS.

Answer 39

WATERLOO

Question 40

EUROPEAN VICTOR’S PLAN TO: 1. ISOLATE FRANCE- GREATLY REDUCING IT’S POWER 2. RESTORE THE “LEGITIMATE RULERS” (ROYAL FAMILIES) 3. CREATE A “BALANCE OF POWER”- NO NATION STRONGER THAN ANOTHER

Answer 40

CONGRESS OF VIENNA

Question 41

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FORM A “HOLY ALLIANCE” (USE CHRISTIAN VALUES IN ALL DEALINGS) AND AGREE TO STOP ANY REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE THAT WOULD DESTABILIZE ANY MONARCHY.

Answer 41

CONCERT OF EUROPE