French Revolution

Question 1

2nd Estate

Answer 1

government and military officials

Question 2

Electors

Answer 2

qualified French voters (only 30,000)

Question 3

Directory

Answer 3

corrupt French government post-Revolution, pre-Napoleon

Question 4

Republic of Virtue

Answer 4

program to create “good citizens”-instituted by Robespierre

Question 5

Reign of Terror

Answer 5

France under control of Robespierre- 40,000 killed

Question 6

Committee of Public Safety

Answer 6

a committee to kill opposers of the Revolution

Question 7

Charlotte Corday

Answer 7

woman who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat

Question 8

Maximilien Robespierre

Answer 8

led Committee of Public Safety- became power-crazy and eventually beheaded. Very pro-Revolution

Question 9

Guillotine

Answer 9

French execution device- beheaded people with a large blade

Question 10

Jacobins

Answer 10

in favor of killing King Louis XVI

Question 11

3rd Estate

Answer 11

typically poor, hungry working class

Question 12

Taille Tax

Answer 12

paid only by 3rd estate to government

Question 13

Louis XVIII

Answer 13

Post-Napoleon French monarch

Question 14

Bourgeoisie

Answer 14

middle class- part of 3rd Estate. merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, writers, etc. educated.

Question 15

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 15

no one will leave the Tennis Court in which the Constitution is being written until it is finished

Question 16

Bastille

Answer 16

French armory & prison destroyed by rebels

Question 17

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Answer 17

French Constitution

Question 18

1st Estate

Answer 18

church authorities

Question 19

Olympe de Gouges

Answer 19

French women’s rights activist

Question 20

Jean-Paul Marat

Answer 20

Most famous martyr of Revolution- wrote a newspaper about Revolution opposers and named them specifically

Question 21

Georges Danton

Answer 21

Removed Monarchy of 1792- minister of Justice

Question 22

Sans-culottes

Answer 22

“those without fancy pants” poor, starving group of protesters of the Revolution

Question 23

Threatened to use force to restore Louis XVI, went to war with France

Answer 23

Austria

Question 24

Attacked by France, retreated and won the attack

Answer 24

Russia

Question 25

Duke of Wellington

Answer 25

defeated Napoleon in Waterloo, Belgium

Question 26

National Assembly

Answer 26

French rebel organization that removed privileges of the 1st and 2nd Estate, worked heavily for rebellion

Question 27

Unifying people based on language, religion, and national culture

Answer 27

Nationalism

Question 28

Enemy of the French who had a strong army

Answer 28

Great Britain

Question 29

French Constitution

Answer 29

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 30

Civil Code

Answer 30

gave French citizens legal equality, religious tolerance, no serfdom, choice of profession, etc. -Developed by Napoleon

Question 31

Girondins

Answer 31

in favor of keeping King Louis XVI alive

Question 32

French gov't under Napoleon, supposed to be a republic, really a dictatorship

Answer 32

Consulate

Question 33

Corveé tax

Answer 33

Slave labor- used as way of payment for those too poor to pay with money

Question 34

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 34

Famous French leader who brought legal equality to France, conquered many European lands

Question 35

coup d'etat

Answer 35

sudden overthrow of a government