Events and Phases of the Revolution

Question 0

Third Estate is doubled

Answer 0

December 1788

Question 1

Assembly of Notables

Answer 1

22 February 1787

Question 2

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 2

June 20, 1789–Versailles
Suggested by Mounier, 577 members of the third estate signed this oath, pledging to remain together until they had a written constitution for France.

Question 3

Great Fear

Answer 3

Period of panic and riot by peasants and others amid rumours of an “aristocratic conspiracy” by the king and the privileged to overthrow the Third Estate. The gathering of troops around Paris provoked insurrection, and on July 14 the Parisian rabble seized the Bastille. In the provinces the peasants rose against their lords, attacking châteaus and destroying feudal documents.

Question 4

August 4, 1789

Answer 4

Group of aristocrats, led by d’Aiguillon and Richelieu, rose in the assembly to renounce their feudal rights, dues, and tithes in an attempt to end the Great Fear

Question 5

October Days

Answer 5

Over 7,000 Parisian women marched to Versailles to demand flour and intimidated the king into signing the decrees of the assembly (CHANGE)

Question 6

September Massacres

Answer 6

The Paris Commune executed about 1,200 people who were common criminals and assumed counter revolutionaries

Question 7

Vendée Uprising

Answer 7

1793–Revolutionary resistance movement lead by aristocratic officers and priests (royalist sympathizers?) in the area of the Vendée, south of Loire.