French Rev Test

Question 1

Bourgeoisie

Answer 1

French middle class

Question 2

Deficit spending

Answer 2

Situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in

Question 3

Emigre

Answer 3

Person who flees his or her country for political reasons

Question 4

Sans-culottes

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Girondists

Answer 5

A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.

Question 6

Jacobins

Answer 6

The most radical political faction of the French Revolution who ruled France during the Reign of Terror.

Question 7

Tricolor

Answer 7

Red, white and blue badge of the common people

Question 8

Blockade

Answer 8

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region

Question 9

Guerilla warfare

Answer 9

type of fighting in which soldiers use swift hit-and-run attacks against the enemy

Question 10

Abdicate

Answer 10

to give up a position, right, or power

Question 11

Legitimacy

Answer 11

the hereditary right of a monarch to rule

Question 12

Consulate

Answer 12

government established in France after the overthrow of the Directory in 1799, with Napoleon as first consul in control of the entire government

Question 13

In the Declaration of Pilnitz

Answer 13

the statement made by Austria and Prussia that they would attack France if anything happened to the King or Queen

Question 14

Suffrage

Answer 14

the right to vote

Question 15

Nationalism

Answer 15

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

Question 16

Plebiscite

Answer 16

popular vote

Question 17

Annex

Answer 17

to add or attach

Question 18

First Estate

Answer 18

clergy

Question 19

Second Estate

Answer 19

nobility

Question 20

Third Estate

Answer 20

commoners

Question 21

Louis XVI

Answer 21

King of France during the French Revolution

Question 22

Marie Antoinette

Answer 22

Queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy (1755-1793)

Question 23

Abbe Sieyes

Answer 23

Wrote an essay called “What is the 3rd estate” Argued that lower classes were more important than the nobles and the government should be responsible to the people.

Question 24

Jacques Necker

Answer 24

financial expert of Louis XVI, he advised Louis to reduce court spending, reform his government, abolish tariffs on internal trade, but the First and Second Estates got him fired

Question 25

Marquis de Lafayette

Answer 25

French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army.

Question 26

Maximillian Robespierre

Answer 26

A Jacobin who led the Committee of Public Safety and wanted to kill any opposers to the revolution

Question 27

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 27

Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804

Question 28

Olmpe de Gouges

Answer 28

Journalist who demanded equal rights for women. Wrote, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen."

Question 29

Louis XVIII

Answer 29

French monarch who was restored to the throne by the allies after Napoleon was defeated.

Question 30

Prince Clemens von Metternich

Answer 30

Austrian member of the nobility and chief architect of conservative policy at the Congress of Vienna (1773-1859)

Question 31

Czar Alexander I

Answer 31

Russian ruler during Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia

Question 32

Lord Robert Castlereagh

Answer 32

British representative at the Congress of Vienna that wanted to restrict Frances military

Question 33

Prince Maurice Talleyrand

Answer 33

French representative at the Congress of Vienna

Question 34

Causes of the French Revolution

Answer 34

Rising Bread Prices, debt, war, social class system, unfair taxes

Question 35

The Storming of the Bastille

Answer 35

Destruction of the prison seen as the true start of the French Revolution.

Question 36

Women's March on Versailles

Answer 36

Revolt where women invaded the National Assembly and the royal apartments (1789)

Question 37

The Constitution of 1791

Answer 37

all 3 estates have equal power in government, National Assembly becomes Legislative Assembly, absolute monarchy is abolished

Question 38

Reign of Terror

Answer 38

the period in France where Robespierre ruled and used revolutionary terror to solidify the home front tried rebels, and they were all judged severely, and most were executed.

Question 39

Goals of the French Revolution

Answer 39

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Question 40

Outcomes of the Congress of Vienna

Answer 40

Balanced power within Europe and Monarchies restored.