French Revolution

Question 0

Parlements

Answer 0

Regional governing bodies in France

Question 1

Debt of the French Monarchy

Answer 1

Debt built up by supporting the American Revolution and not enough taxes coming in to support debt

Question 2

Jacques Necker

Answer 2

Swedish Banker that comes in to fix the debt crisis. Tells them that they need to tax not only the 3rd estate

Question 3

Estates General

Answer 3

Called together to try to fix the debt problem.
1st estate- clergy
2nd- nobles
3rd- everyone else

Question 4

Cahiers de dolances

Answer 4

List of grievances (complaints) to the king.

Question 5

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 5

The 3rd estate met on a tennis court to make an oath that they will not disband until a constitution is written.

Question 6

National Assembly

Answer 6

Legislative body that starts the revolution. Made up the 3rd estate

Question 7

Storming of the Bastille

Answer 7

Governor of the Bastille was decapitated following a storming of the Bastille by the working class

Question 8

The Great Fear

Answer 8

The peasants of the countryside were rioting against their feudal lords. Rumor that the king was hiring foreign armies against the French people and that there were bandits roaming the streets robbing peasants.

Question 9

Declaration of the Rights of man and the Citizen

Answer 9

The rights of life, liberty, and body. John Locke. Basis of the Declaration of the Independence

Question 10

March on Versailles

Answer 10

Poor women of Paris march on Versailles to get attention from the King. They want them back to Paris. They break into the National Assembly and force them back to paris

Question 11

Assignats

Answer 11

The currency of France during the French Revolution

Question 12

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 12

The government put the clergy under state patrol. People can elect own clergy. Clergy have to take oath to the revolution.

Question 13

Flight to Varennes

Answer 13

Louis tries to flee to belgium and he is caught right before he gets there and is sent back to Paris

Question 14

French Emigres

Answer 14

Nobles that have fled from France

Question 15

Declaration of Pillnitz

Answer 15

Prussia and Austria promising to intervene if the royal family is harmed

Question 16

Legislative assembly

Answer 16

The National Assembly becomes the legislative assembly in 1792

Question 17

Jacobin Club- Girondists/Mountain

Answer 17

Girondists: Very radical but do not want to kill louis
Mountain: Also very radical but want to kill Louis- Run by robespierre

Question 18

Sans-Culottes

Answer 18

Those without breeches

Everyone who is not aristocracy

Question 19

September Massacres

Answer 19

Working class of Paris stormed the prisons and killed all of the prisoners due to the fear of anti revolutionary activity

Question 20

Reign of Terror

Answer 20

Thousands of people beheaded of being counterrevolutionaries and eventually just an accusation would get you killed- quick trials

Question 21

Guillotine

Answer 21

The place where people were beheaded. beheadings were public

Question 22

Committee of Public safety

Answer 22

Committee that is running Paris during the Revolution- Run by Robbespierre

Question 23

Thermidorian Reaction

Answer 23

People accusing Robespierre of being a counterrevolutionary and was beheaded