History French Rev

Question 1

Who’s part of the 1st estate

Answer 1

Clergy

Question 2

Who’s part of the 2nd estate

Answer 2

Nobles

Question 3

Who’s part of the 3rd estate

Answer 3

Bourgeoise

Question 4

Radicals wanted

Answer 4

A republic

Question 5

Conservatives wanted

Answer 5

Limited monarchy

Question 6

What was the slogan of the French Rev

Answer 6

Liberty, equality, fraternity

Question 7

How did France’s social divisions in the late 1700s contribute to the French Rev

Answer 7

Members of the 3rd estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality

Question 8

Why was the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, an important event in the French Rev

Answer 8

It challenged King’s authority

Question 9

What best describes France’s gov according to Constitution of 1791

Answer 9

Limited monarchy

Question 10

An attack on this building to steal weapons started French Rev

Answer 10

Bastille

Question 11

In which ways did Directory maintain changes that had taken place during French Rev

Answer 11

Republic continued to be governed without king

Question 12

Which group in France would have been least likely to support Reign of Terror

Answer 12

Emigres

Question 13

How did Directory’s actions ultimately lead to rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 13

Directory was weak and corrupt

Question 14

What best explains the conditions that led to reign of terror

Answer 14

Committee of Public Safety had absolute power

Question 15

How did France’s radical revolutionaries try to protect the rev

Answer 15

By writing new constitution

Question 16

Napoleonic Code was a reform of France’s

Answer 16

Legal system

Question 17

Chief goal of Congress of Vienna was to

Answer 17

Preserve peace through balance of power

Question 18

What did not apply to 3rd estate

Answer 18

Paid few taxes

Question 19

What made up 3 estates under France’s old regime

Answer 19

Clergy, commoners, nobility

Question 20

What is one way that Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

It stated that function of gov was to protect individual rights

Question 21

What best describes impact of Declaration of Rights of Man and of Citizen

Answer 21

Put into practice ideals of Enlightenment

Question 22

What goal was most likely to be supported by both poor peasants and wealthy city merchants in early years of French Rev

Answer 22

End to feudal priveleges

Question 23

What man was leader to Jacobins and later became leader of France

Answer 23

Maximilian Robespierre

Question 24

What country was Napoleon’s biggest enemy

Answer 24

Britain

Question 25

Napoleon appointed his brother Joseph, to be king of __________ after they ran the royal fam out

Answer 25

Spain

Question 26

Death of ________ ended Reign of Terror in France

Answer 26

Robespierre

Question 27

When King Louis XVI locked members of legislature out of Estates General, they created their own meeting place and made the

Answer 27

Tennis court oath

Question 28

Which group of people met to determine how to divide Europe after Napoleon's reign ended

Answer 28

Congress of Vienna

Question 29

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Answer 29

did not rule from the Palace of Versailles until they died

Question 30

Robespierre began

Answer 30

Reign of terror

Question 31

What constitution is not still used in France today

Answer 31

Constitution of 1791

Question 32

Who were the Bourgeoisie

Answer 32

Middle class people who were part of 3rd estate

Question 33

Who were Emigres

Answer 33

Nobles who fled France during rev

Question 34

Women who marched on Versailles wanted to

Answer 34

Protest rising price of bread not steal it from king

Question 35

1st estate was made up of

Answer 35

Clergy who owned 10% of land

Question 36

What was not a reason the French people wanted change

Answer 36

Thriving economics in France

Question 37

During Ancient Regime, who had to pay taxes

Answer 37

3rd estate

Question 38

What were economic problems during 1780s in France

Answer 38

Crop failure, high cost of living, price of bread doubled

Question 39

Why did Louis XVI have to call meeting of Estates General in 1789

Answer 39

He wanted to raise taxes on 1st and 2nd estates, but parliament said no

Question 40

Symbol of French Rev and act that began rev was

Answer 40

Storming of Bastille

Question 41

Who were Sans-Culottes

Answer 41

Parisian workers and shopkeepers who wanted the rev to bring greater change

Question 42

How did King Louis XVI die

Answer 42

Executed by guillotine

Question 43

What gov came after end of Robespierre's Reign of Terror

Answer 43

2 house legislature and executive body of five men known as the Directory

Question 44

What is Coup d'etat

Answer 44

Seizure of power by military force

Question 45

Which country used the Scorched earth policy to help defeat Napoleon's army

Answer 45

Russia

Question 46

Napoleon's greatest work was his Napoleonic Code which did all following except

Answer 46

Limited freedom of speech, limited freedom of press, restored slavery to French colonies in Caribbean

Question 47

Eventually, Napoleon became __________ of France

Answer 47

Emperor

Question 48

British and Prussian forces defeated Napoleon for final time at

Answer 48

Battle of Waterloo

Question 49

At end of it all, France's was governed by

Answer 49

Absolute monarchy