The French Revolution

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

The political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested esoecially in a monarch or dictator
The Three Louis’

Question 2

The French Revolution (phases) NEMRC

Answer 2

National Convention is formed
Execution of King Louis XVI
Maximillien Robespierre rises to power
Reign of Terror
Committees of safety

Question 3

Estates/Class System

Answer 3

Three Estates
Clergy =1%* , Nobility =2% , Poor =97%
Only the poor were taxed

*Everyone in the royal family was in the second estate - only the King belongs to the first one

Question 4

Seigneurial System

Answer 4

An institutional form of land distribution established in New France in 1627 and officially abolished in 1854

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return

Question 6

Cahiers (de doléances)

Answer 6

Lists of grievances taken in the spring of 1789, they were used as instructions for the representatives of the Estates-General

Question 7

Middle Class (Bourgeoisie)

Answer 7

They belonged to the Third Estate

Got their money from trade oversees & manufacturing

Question 8

Ruling Elite

Answer 8

Highest level of the hierarchy ~ The King/Queen

Question 9

Censorship

Answer 9

The supression or prohibition of any types of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

Question 10

Freedom of Expression

Answer 10

The abilty of an individual or group of individuals to express their beliefs, thoughts, ideas, and emotions about different issues free from government censorship

Question 11

Taxes (F.R)

Answer 11

Befroe the F.R peasants paid a land tax (the taille) and 5% property tax (the vingtieme)
Everyone paid a tax based on the no. of people in your family (capitation) depending on the taxpayer’s status

Question 12

Philosophes

Answer 12

French for “philosophers” were writers, intellectuals and scientists who helped shape the French Enlightenment 
    Baron de Montesquieu
    Voltaire
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Denis Diderot

Question 13

VLR

Answer 13

Vive La Revolution

Question 14

Estates General

Answer 14

A meeting of the three estates within French society which included the clergy, nobility and the peasant classes
The state you belonged to had an effect on your rights

Question 15

Versailles

Answer 15

The monarchy lived there for most of Louis XIV’s reign
Was stromed during the F.R by fisherwomen who wanted Marie’s head
October 5th 1789

Question 16

The Tennis Court Oath

Answer 16

20th June 1789
Made up of the Third Estate
They established the Nstionals Assembly 
    New Revolutionary Government
They pledged “not to separate, and reassemble whenever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established”

Question 17

The Bastille (storming)

Answer 17

14th July 1789
A state prison used for enemies of the crown
It was attacked by a mob ~ there was ammunition the revolutionaires wanted
The Bastille was a “symbol of the monarchy’s dictorial rule

Question 18

Popular Uprising (Bread March ; Women’s march on the Versailles Palace)

Answer 18

5th October 1789

The women were protesting the high bread prices, and were coming after Marie Antoinette

Question 19

National Assembly

Answer 19

An assembly formed by the Third Estate on 17th June 1789

A “revolution assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Etate (commoners of the Estates Genral)

Question 20

Moderate (Girondins)

Answer 20

One of the parties formed after the establishment of the National Assembly

Question 21

Radical (Jacobins)

Answer 21

Maximilien Robespierre was the leader

The more famous party formed after the Revolution

Question 22

Collective Conciousness

Answer 22

The set of shared beliefs, ideas, attitudes, and knowledge that are common to a social group or society

Question 23

Reactionary

Answer 23

The people who wanted the old political system ~ the monarchy & the church
Including the feudal system

Question 24

Decleration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Answer 24

Human civil rights document from the French Revolution
The Rights are
    Liberty
    Prosperity
    Security
    Resistance to Opression

Question 25

Riegn of Terror

Answer 25

A period of Remorseless repression or bloodshed, in particular the period of the Terror during the French Revolution
Thousands of people executed

Question 26

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Liberté, Egalité, et Fraternite

Answer 26

The most famous slogan of the FR

Men and Women are born and remained free and equal in rights

Question 27

La Marseillaise

Answer 27

The French National Anthem, jt was composed in one night

Written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Question 28

Revolution and Republic

Answer 28

The revolution was 1789-1799

The first French Republic was formed in 1792 (21st Sept.)