The French Revolution

Question 1

The French Revolution (1789)

Answer 1

• The French Revolution posed a
  fundamental challenge to Europe’s
  existing political and social order.
• The French Revolution resulted
  from a combination of long-term
  social and political causes, as well as Enlightenment ideas, exacerbated by short-term fiscal and economic crises.
• The French Revolution became
  the most momentous upheaval of the revolutionary age.
• It replaced the “Old Regime” with a modern society.
• It profoundly influenced future revolutions.

Question 2

State of France

Answer 2

• France was poor
• they spent too much money on the American Revolution and the Seven Years’ War
• people were starving
• nobility + Louis XVI + Marie-Antoinette were spending lavishly
• the enlightenment
• inflation

Question 3

Estates General

Answer 3

• Louis fires his financial advisor Jacques Necker
• calls the Estates General

Question 4

Rise of the Third Estate

Answer 4

• Third Estate meets up at Versailles as National Assembly but Louis locks the door to their normal meeting room
• go to an indoor tennis court and take the Tennis Court Oath that declares that they will continue meeting up until France has a constitution

Question 5

The Bastille

Answer 5

• rioters stormed the Bastille in order to secure gunpowder and weapons

Question 6

Women’s March

Answer 6

• women revolt against King and Queen by forcing them to move back to Paris from Versailles

Question 7

King and Queen Escape (1791)

Answer 7

• king and queen run away and dress up as servants in order to escape
• they get caught
• Louis is sentenced to death by the guillotine in January 1793
• Marie is sentenced 9 months later

Question 8

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Answer 8

• ask for free communication
• followed ideas like Rousseau and other Enlightenment ones
• replace the old regime with a modern system
• wanted lands to be their own
• believed they should earn money from their working

Question 9

French Revolution Turns Radical

Answer 9

• Legislative Assembly call war on Austria and Prussia
• Jacobins attacked royals and arrested the king
• Legislative Assembly was replaced with National Convention which got rid of the monarchy and instead established the French Republic

Question 10

Reign of Terror

Answer 10

• many were sentenced to death by the guillotine
• France had a constitution which gave monarchy power
• Robespierre was at the lead of the killings
• he was executed by the guillotine by his own people, the Committee of Public Safety