Module 13

Question 1

Old Regime

Answer 1

The political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

Question 2

Estate

Answer 2

One of the 3 social classes in France before the French Revolution

Question 3

Tithe

Answer 3

A family payment of on tenth of its income to a church

Question 4

Estates general

Answer 4

An assembly if representatives from all three of the estates or social classes in France

Question 5

Mercenary

Answer 5

A solider who is paid to fight in a foreign army

Question 6

Great fear

Answer 6

A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French country side after the storming of the bastille in 1789

Question 7

Emigre

Answer 7

People who leave their native country for political reasons reasons like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprising of the French Revolution

Question 8

Sans Culotte

Answer 8

In the French Revolution a radical group made up of the Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government lower prices and an end to food shortages

Question 9

Jacobin

Answer 9

Member of a radical political organization during the French Revolution

Question 10

Guillotine

Answer 10

A machine for beheading people used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

Question 11

Reign of Terror

Answer 11

The period from mid - 1793 to mid 1794 when Maximilian Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictatorship and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed

Question 12

Coup d’etat

Answer 12

A sudden seizure of political power

Question 13

Plebiscite

Answer 13

A direct vote in which a country people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal

Question 14

Lycee

Answer 14

A government- run public school in France

Question 15

Concordat

Answer 15

A formal agreement especially Oh ok between the pope and a government dealing with the control of church affairs

Question 16

Blockade

Answer 16

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region

Question 17

Guerillas

Answer 17

A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country

Question 18

Scorched Earth Policy

Answer 18

The practice of burning crops killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land

Question 19

Balance of power

Answer 19

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

Question 20

Legitimacy

Answer 20

The hereditary right of a monarch to rule