Unit 6: The French Revolution

Question 1

When was the French Revolution?

Answer 1

1789-1815

Question 2

The Church owned______, collected___, and paid no direct____?

Answer 2

Land, lithes, and taxes

Question 3

Nobles competed for royal what at Versailles?

Answer 3

appointments

Question 4

What is the bourgeoisie?

Answer 4

middle class- wealthy of the 3rd estate

Question 5

Enlightenment ideas questioned ____?

Answer 5

The old regime

Question 6

Most of the Third Estate were ___ ______ or ___ ____

Answer 6

rural peasants or urban workers

Question 7

France practiced deficit ____

Answer 7

Spending

Question 8

Bad harvests increased the price of what?

Answer 8

Food

Question 9

What is Cahier?

Answer 9

The French word for notebook

Question 10

All three estates prepared cashiers for listing their what? They included what?

Answer 10

grievances, which included Fair taxes, Freedom of the press, regular meetings of the Estate-General

Question 11

When did Parisians storm the Bastille?

Answer 11

July, 14, 1789

Question 12

What did the Bastille symbolize?

Answer 12

Years of abuse by the monarchy

Question 13

What happened when the Parisians stormed the Bastille?

Answer 13

The mob broke through the guards’ defenses and tore down the prison for political prisoners

Question 14

Rumors asserted that government troops were _________?

Answer 14

seizing peasant crops

Question 15

Defiant peasants attacked what?

Answer 15

Manors and storehouses

Question 16

Who headed the National Guard

Answer 16

Marquis de Lafayette

Question 17

What organized in response to royal troops

Answer 17

A militia

Question 18

The radical Paris Commune replaced what?

Answer 18

The government in the city

Question 19

Nobles voted to end their own___ ___ ___?

Answer 19

Exemption from taxes

Question 20

The Declaration of the Rights of Man promoted and stated what?

Answer 20

Stated all men were born free and equal in rights

Promoted the revolutionary slogan

Question 21

What is the revolutionary slogan?

Answer 21

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Question 22

Who demanded equal rights for women?

Answer 22

Olympe de Gouges

Question 23

Who did not accept the reforms made by the National Assembly?

Answer 23

Louis XVI

Question 24

Women marched to where and demanded to see the king and queen?

Answer 24

Versailles

Question 25

French peasants rejected to civil ______at the Clergy?

Answer 25

Constitution

Question 26

The constitution of 1791 establishes what?

Answer 26

A new government

Question 27

Emigres reported attacks on their what?

Answer 27

Property and lives

Question 28

The King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria issued the What?

Answer 28

Declaration of Pilnitz

Question 29

Who called for a new republican government?

Answer 29

Sans-culottes

Question 30

The Jacobins used what to advance the republican cause?

Answer 30

Pamphlets and newspaper

Question 31

Why did radicals declare war on Austria, Prussia, and Britain?

Answer 31

To spread revolution

Question 32

Who was attacked in the September massacres?

Answer 32

Prisoners

Question 33

About how many prisoners were killed?

Answer 33

1,200

Question 34

Radicals formed a new ____ ____ ____, the National Convention.

Answer 34

Republican legislative body

Question 35

Louis XVI and who were executed?

Answer 35

Marie Antoinette

Question 36

Why was the Committee of Public Safety formed?

Answer 36

To stop threats to France

Question 37

What did the Committee of Public Safety oversee?

Answer 37

Trials and executions and ruled absolutely

Question 38

Who believed France could only achieve a republic terror?

Answer 38

Robespierre " The Incorruptible"

Question 39

What was used as a "humane" method of beheading?

Answer 39

Guillotine

Question 40

After the thousands of executions, the _____ _____ turned on the Committee of Public Safety. Who was beheaded?

Answer 40

National Convention Robespierre

Question 41

Who created the Constitution of 1795?

Answer 41

The French Directory, with a bicameral legislature

Question 42

What is the French national anthem called?

Answer 42

La Marseillaise

Question 43

Who overthrew the weak Directory and established the Consulate?

Answer 43

Napoleon

Question 44

Who named himself the First Consul?

Answer 44

Napoleon

Question 45

With strong support from the people, _____ crowned himself Emperor of France?

Answer 45

Napoleon

Question 46

What places did Napoleon annex parts of?

Answer 46

Italy and Germany

Question 47

Who abolished the Holy Roman Empire?

Answer 47

Napoleon

Question 48

The _____ ______ closed European ports to Britain but failed to defeat the UK

Answer 48

Continental System

Question 49

What group of people conducted a campaign of guerilla warfare?

Answer 49

Spanish patriots

Question 50

What did the Russians do as the French advanced towards them?

Answer 50

The Russians retreated East and burned their own crops (The scorched earth policy)

Question 51

Where did Napoleon escape exile?

Answer 51

Elba

Question 52

When Napoleon escaped exile who fled from France at his return?

Answer 52

Louis XVIII

Question 53

At what battle was Napoleon forced into exile for good? Where was he exiled to?

Answer 53

The Battle of Waterloo St. Helena

Question 54

When did Napoleon die?

Answer 54

1821

Question 55

What did Napoleon make France into while living and dead?

Answer 55

Made France into a centralized state with a constitution and elections

Question 56

Who sold the Louisiana Territory to the US

Answer 56

Napoleon

Question 57

France was ringed with ____ countries and ______ restored?

Answer 57

Strong Monarchies

Question 58

Who will rule France after Napoleon's death?

Answer 58

Louis XVIII