French Revelution

Question 0

Describe the reign of Louis XVI

Answer 0

Came to the throne in 1774 (young)

Mary Antoinnette was his wife

Disconnected from society

Lives in the palace of versallies

Question 1

Who are the bourgeoisie and how the king lose their favor?

Answer 1

Middle class
High taxes

Question 2

Who is Marion tonight? Why did the citizens of france detest her in time?

Answer 2

Austrian duchess for Mary Louis XVI

Madame deficit»spent too much money

Question 3

Who was Rousseau?

Answer 3

Society needed “society” contract (declaration of the rights of man)

Question 4

Who was Voltaire?

Answer 4

Against the church; believed in absolute monarchy

Question 5

Who was Montesquieu?

Answer 5

Monarchy needed limits-must work with elected parliament

Question 6

Who was John Locke?

Answer 6

Role of government was to protect the rights of people

Question 7

What was the tennis court oath?

Answer 7

National assembly members met on the royal tennis court

Vowed to keep meeting until a new form of government

Thrift estate

Question 8

What happened on July 14th, 1789?

Answer 8

Storm the Bastille

Took it apart

Question 9

What was the declaration of the rights of man? why was significant?

Answer 9

People of France were guaranteed fundamental rights

Government was limited

Question 10

It’s too political clubs dominated the French government in the Midas of the revolution? Identify who are the radicals

Answer 10

Jacobins» radicals

Girondins» moderates

Question 11

Who were the sans-culottes? Name three radical revolutionaries

Answer 11

They were poor workers from France cities

John Paul Marat
Jacques Danton
Maximillion Robespierre

Question 12

What happened to Louis XVI, Mary Antoinnette, Robespierre?

Answer 12

All were beheaded by the guillotine

Question 13

What was the directory?

Answer 13

Full of the reign of terror» directory

Landowners + wealthy gained political punier

Question 14

Revolution

Answer 14

And overthrow of the government and social system of a country usually by force

Question 15

Philosophes

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Educated people who had theories about society and government

Question 16

Tithe

Answer 16

One 10th of one’s annual income or produced farmland

Question 17

Estates General

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Is it kind of Parliament there was A representative from each social group

Question 18

Inflation

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I situation in which the price of goods rises quickly

Question 19

Monopoly

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The exclusive right to sell a product to a group of people

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Tariff

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A tax

Question 21

Deficit

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The money the government is short each year after it pays its bills

Question 22

Catalyst

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Something that helps other things to change

Question 23

Bigotry

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Prejudice

Question 24

Censored

Answer 24

Something one is forbidden to see, hear or read

Question 25

Republican government

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A government in which all power rests with the citizens who vote to elect their leaders

Question 26

Mercenary

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A paid soldier

Question 27

Constitution

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A document that sets out the major laws and principles of a government

Question 28

Radical

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Someone who wants major change quickly

Question 29

Allegiance

Answer 29

A formal declaration of loyalty

Question 30

Guillotine

Answer 30

An instrument for beheading by means of a heavy blade

Question 31

Infrastructure

Answer 31

The roads, canals, and other means of communication and travel within a country

Question 32

Skeptic

Answer 32

One who questions are raises doubts