French Revolution Study

Question 1

About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?

Answer 1

97

Question 2

What happened on July 14, 1789 which today is celebrated in France as Bastille Day?

Answer 2

The National Assembly stormed the Bastille to get weapons and took it apart brick by brick.

Question 3

What was the ‘slogan of the French Revolution’?

Answer 3

Liberty, equality, fraternity

Question 4

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

Answer 4

Supporters of the revolution or no one

Question 5

What were the important goals of the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 5

Compensation, legitimacy, balance of power.

Question 6

Who was the leader at the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 6

Prince Klemens von Metternich

Question 7

What issue led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years?

Answer 7

The king ran out of money and the second and first estates refused to pay taxes and the bank wouldn’t give him money.

Question 8

Which group imposed the Reign of Terror?

Answer 8

The Committee of Public Safety

Question 9

Which group finally forced Robespierre from power?

Answer 9

His own supporters

Question 10

How did Great Britain react to the Continental System?

Answer 10

They responded by requiring all ships traveling to Europe had to stop in British ports.

Question 11

Describe the tax system in France in the years before the French Revolution?

Answer 11

The third estate had to pay very many taxes, and the first and second estates paid very few.

Question 12

Name three of Napoleon’s accomplishments?

Answer 12

1. The idea of equality before the law 2. Religious toleration 3. Advancement by merit and not by birth 4. Uniform standards of government 5. Reformed tax system 6. Promoted public education 7. Improved agriculture and industry 8. Freedom from an absolute monarch

Question 13

What strategy did Czar Alexander I use to defeat Napoleon in Russia?

Answer 13

Scorched-earth policy

Question 14

Name three accomplishments of Klemens von Metternich at the Congress of Vienna?

Answer 14

He put the kings back on the throne (legitimacy), established balance of power, and people would be paid back (compensation)

Question 15

Define nationalism.

Answer 15

Yearning for self-rule and the restoration of customs and traditions.

Question 16

Besides the scorched-earth policy, what was a major factor in Napoleon’s failure to defeat Russia?

Answer 16

The harsh winter

Question 17

Name three groups that belonged to the Third Estate.

Answer 17

The middle class, doctors, lawyers, artisans, peasants.

Question 18

Who was the first King of France after the end of the French Revolution?

Answer 18

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 19

King Louis XVI left Versailles for Paris when his palace was surrounded by what group?

Answer 19

Peasant women, fish ladies (the bread riot)

Question 20

Name three facts about the guillotine.

Answer 20

Painless, effective, easy.

Question 21

What group took the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer 21

The National Assembly

Question 22

What was the Great Fear?

Answer 22

A wave of violence started by the storming of the Bastille.

Question 23

Name three things that contributed to the French financial crisis.

Answer 23

The Seven Years War, the American Revolution, the rash spending of the king and queen.

Question 24

Who did Napoleon overthrow to take control of France?

Answer 24

The Directory

Question 25

What was the main purpose of the Committee for Public Safety?

Answer 25

Improving France, protecting the Revolution.

Question 26

Where was Napoleon's last battle fought?

Answer 26

Waterloo

Question 27

What came to an end with the death of Maximilien Robespierre?

Answer 27

The Revolution

Question 28

Which European country did Napoleon Bonaparte not conquer?

Answer 28

England

Question 29

Name the three islands associated with Napoleon Bonaparte’s life.

Answer 29

The island of Elba, the island of Corsica, and the island of St. Helena.

Question 30

Louis XVI was executed after being accused of what?

Answer 30

Treason, (conspiring 'against liberty of the nation')

Question 31

Why did Napoleon Bonaparte decide to invade Russia?

Answer 31

They withdrew the Continental System.

Question 32

Name three similarities between Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler.

Answer 32

They each lost to Britain and Russia, they both influenced their ideas and beliefs on their people, and they both had some good influence despite them being bad people and hated.

Question 33

What are buffer states?

Answer 33

Neutral territories.

Question 34

What is legitimacy?

Answer 34

Restoring to power the royal families who ruled before Napoleon.

Question 35

Who was the King of France at the start of the French Revolution?

Answer 35

King Louis XVI (16th)

Question 36

What did the Concordat of 1801 do?

Answer 36

1. Acknowledged Catholicism as the religion of most French people, but tolerated other religions 2. Bishops were named by the government and swore allegiance 3. State paid salaries of the Catholic clergy.

Question 37

What was the attack on the Paris prison by the enraged citizens called?

Answer 37

Storming the Bastille

Question 38

What is conscription?

Answer 38

A draft calling all men between 18 and 45 to military service.

Question 39

Define tithe.

Answer 39

A 10% tax on income from church members.

Question 40

Why was the voting system of the Estates-General unfair?

Answer 40

Each estate got one vote, but the third estate was 97% of the population and they were always overruled.

Question 41

Name three groups that led France during the French Revolution.

Answer 41

National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, Committee of Public Safety.

Question 42

Name three things that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens did.

Answer 42

1. All people are equal before the law, 2. Guaranteed freedom of speech, press, and religion, 3. Protected against arbitrary arrest and punishment, 4. Did not grant equal rights to women, 5. Divorce was easier to obtain and women could inherit property.

Question 43

What did Marie Antoinette never say that made her famous?

Answer 43

Let them eat cake.

Question 44

Which document established The Directory?

Answer 44

The Constitution of 1795.

Question 45

What is an emigre?

Answer 45

Someone who left their own country to settle in another politically.

Question 46

Which French group helped to define the U.S. political spectrum of left, right, and center?

Answer 46

Legislative Assembly.

Question 47

Who killed Jean Paul Marat in the hopes of ending the executions of so many French citizens?

Answer 47

Charlotte Corday.

Question 48

Why did Napoleon’s Continental system backfire on him?

Answer 48

It destroyed the economic foundations of the European countries, and led him to go to war, and ultimately lose.

Question 49

Name three reasons why the Russians were able to defeat Napoleon’s army.

Answer 49

The cold winters, scorch and burn policy, long supply lines.

Question 50

What was one of the main purposes of the Concert of Europe?

Answer 50

Oppose liberalism and nationalism, defend absolute monarchies.