French Revolution

Question 0

Ancien Regime

Answer 0

The status quo, the way things had always been.
Nobility + clergy at top, peasants + middle class at bottom

Question 1

Revolution’s Causes

Answer 1

bad leaders
financial crisis
bad harvest
ancien regime
enlightenmen

Question 2

1st, 2nd, 3rd estates

Answer 2

1. Clergy
2. Nobility
3. Everyone else(middle class, peasants, working poor)

Question 3

Deficit spending

Answer 3

spending more money than you make.

What the french government did with its unnecessary wars

Question 4

Jacques Necker

Answer 4

Financial advisor hired by Louis XVI
he wanted to cut pensions, tax 1st+2nd estates
failed b/c the 1st and 2nd estates didn’t like him(duh)

Question 5

Louis Calls Estates General

Answer 5

He wants them to work it out so he doesn’t have to figure it out himself, doesn’t take the blame

Question 6

Estates General Voting

Answer 6

Originally each estate gets 1 vote(1st and 2nd can always win)
changed to be by head, and 3rd estate gets its members doubled.

Question 7

Majority Group in Estates General

Answer 7

The 3rd Estate, but for a while didn’t have much power.

Question 8

National Assembly forms

Answer 8

the 3 estates join, decide to make their own way to fix the country

Question 9

The Tennis Court Oath

Answer 9

National Assembly meets in a tennis court b/c their normal hall is locked. They think Louis is trying to stop them.
They meet in an abandoned tennis court, vow to not disband until France has a constitution.

Question 10

Cahier

Answer 10

a formal complaint brought to the Estates General. Were meant to try to address the problems that France was having.

Question 11

Storming the Bastille

Answer 11

Intended Purpose: to get weapons for the revolution. However, there weren’t weapons in it.

Result: freed the prisoners, kickstarted the revolution.

Question 12

National Guard

Answer 12

French civilian army. Led by Marquis de Lafayette.

Question 13

Women March on Versilles

Answer 13

want better prices on bread, want the king to see what the people are going through

Question 14

Where did the women take Louis and Marie?

Answer 14

Tuileries Palace in Paris

Question 15

Jacobins

Answer 15

a popular radical 3rd estate club
followed Rousseau’s ideas
Subgroups: Girondists, Mountain

Question 16

Sans-culottes

Answer 16

‘without long breeches’
shopkeepers, artisans
want more food, price regulation
hate inequality, but don’t want to remove property
supported the Jacobins b/c King Louis tried to escape

Question 17

Cause of the Radical Phase

Answer 17

King Louis XVI trying to flee Paris

showed he had no faith in the new constitution, government

Question 18

September Massacres

Answer 18

around 1200 prisoners killed, thought to be counterrevolutionaries
were actually normal prisoners

Question 19

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 19

Catholic church becomes part of the state

priests forced to marry, churches knocked down or turned into storehouses

Question 20

Who disagreed w/ the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?

Answer 20

Europe, the Church

many people in france disliked it

Question 21

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 21

Led by Robespierre.
Suspends Constitution of 1791, right to fair trial
tyrannical government

Question 22

Reign of Terror: reasons for

Answer 22

King's attempted escape
peasant rebellions
religious, political division
foreign wars
economic crises, food shortage

Question 23

Most affected class in the RoT? Least? Why?

Answer 23

The 3rd estate/peasants. Nobility, clergy. B/c they were complaining, protesting

Question 24

Government Robespierre wanted?

Answer 24

Republic

Question 25

Government after Robespierre is killed?

Answer 25

Thermadorian Reaction
constitution of 1795
2 house legislative, 5 man executive(The Directory)
Girondists, Sans-culottes come back