French Revolution

Question 1

Second Estate

Answer 1

-nobility
-the 2% after the first estate
-very privileged, payed little to no taxes

Question 2

St. Helena

Answer 2

Island where Napoleon was exiled too (the second time), and later died

Question 3

Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Answer 3

Frances version of the declaration of independence

Question 4

Talleyrand

Answer 4

-conduct of French Foreign affairs at the congress of Vienna

Question 5

The Hundred Days

Answer 5

Napoleon’s reign after escaping exile and returning to France

Question 6

Third Estate

Answer 6

-rest of the 97% population
-the ones paying majority of the taxes

Question 7

Trafalgar

Answer 7

battle between Britain and France during the Napoleonic era

Question 8

Ancien Régime

Answer 8

the political and social system in France before the revolution

Question 9

Balance of Power

Answer 9

divide up power among the kings in such a way as to prevent France from rising to power again.

Question 10

Bastille

Answer 10

-Prison that was raided
-Looking for gun power

Question 11

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 11

Where Napoleon was finally defeated

Question 12

Bourgeoisie

Answer 12

“middle class”
-in between 2nd and 3rd estate

Question 13

Charlotte Corday

Answer 13

killed the Jacobin leader (Marat) in the bathtub

Question 14

Concordat of 1801

Answer 14

-agreement between Napoleon and the pope
-establishing the Roman Catholic Church the official church of France

Question 15

Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 15

-Involving the National Assembly
-Louis XIV reigned for a short while

Question 16

Danton

Answer 16

“the chief force in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic”

Question 17

Directory

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Elba

Answer 18

First island Napoleon was exiled too (later escaped back to France)

Question 19

Emigres

Answer 19

people (mostly men) who fled France before/during the French Revolution

Question 20

First Estate

Answer 20

-top 1%
-Clergy
-Hella wealthy

Question 21

Louis XVI

Answer 21

-“last king before the fall of monarchy”
-Married to Marie Antoinette
-Executed by guillotine
-Tried for treason

Question 22

Marat

Answer 22

dude killed in the bathtub by Charlotte
journalist who published his work and thoughts into pamphlets and newspapers

Question 23

Marie Antionette

Answer 23

married to king Louis XVI
Had ties with Austria
tried with conspiring with foreign powers
-lasted 10 more months after Louis XVI
killed by the guillotine

Question 24

National Assembly

Answer 24

It represented the common people of France (also called the Third Estate) and demanded that the king make economic reforms to insure that the people had food to eat.

Question 25

Reign of Terror

Answer 25

a series of massacres and public executions
anyone of “suspected” of treason and going against the group

Question 26

Republic of Virtue

Answer 26

to the political philosophy put forth by Robespierre in a speech

Question 27

Robespierre

Answer 27

leading the reign of terror

Question 28

Rousseau

Answer 28

good government must have the freedom of all its citizens

Question 29

sans-culottes

Question 30

Duke of Wellington

Answer 30

the one who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo