Week 7 The French Revolution

Question 1

How did the french rev start

Answer 1

storming of bastille

Question 2

By June 1789, peasants became restless and violent as the price of this staple food soared and its supply decreased

Answer 2

bread

Question 3

Question: The Great Fear provided this group with the opportunity to criticize aristocratic privilege.

Answer 3

the National Assembly

Question 4

On August 4, 1789, French aristocrats surrendered their special privileges by decree, marking the end of this system in France.

Answer 4

feudalism

Question 5

What key document of the French Revolution was drawn up on the night of August 4 and outlined mans rights and rally the country and lend support to the National Assembly

Answer 5

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Question 6

Why was the short length of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen advantageous

Answer 6

it could be cheaply printed on one side of a piece of paper and allowed maximum citizen access

Question 7

What was Louis XVI’s response to the decrees of August 4 and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Answer 7

e ignored them and waited in Versailles hoping for an end to the revolutionary fervor

Question 8

What event occurred on October 5, 1789, where Parisian women marched to Versailles to protest the lack of bread

Answer 8

the Women’s March

Question 9

What rumor did the Parisian women hear about Marie Antoinette during the Women’s March

Answer 9

she was hoarding grain inside the palace

Question 10

What famous quote, though likely incorrect, is often attributed to Marie Antoinette during the Women’s March

Answer 10

“let them eat cake”

Question 11

How many Paris guards loyal to the revolution joined the mob during the Women’s March

Answer 11

20,000

Question 12

What did Louis XVI promise the angry mob gathered during the Women’s March?

Answer 12

bread

Question 13

Despite Louis XVI’s promise of bread, what did the crowd demand, leading the king and his family to return to Paris with them

Answer 13

return as “guests” of the crowd

Question 14

Where did Louis XVI and his family stay in Paris under guard after returning with the crowd

Answer 14

Palace of the Tuileries

Question 15

On June 20, 1791, Louis XVI began planning to raise an army to crush the revolution, which resulted in this consequence.

Answer 15

earning the distrust of his subjects

Question 16

What document, signed on August 27, 1791, signaled Austria and Prussia’s intent to support the French monarchy

Answer 16

Declaration of Pillnitz

Question 17

How did Louis XVI and his family escape from the Tuileries Palace on June 20, 1791?

Answer 17

in a heavy coach drawn by four horses

Question 18

Who recognized Louis in St. Minahoulde, leading to his capture?

Answer 18

Jean Baptiste Drouet, a former member of the palace guard dismissed by Louis

Question 19

What reforms did the National Assembly enact to dismantle the Ancien Régime?

Answer 19

abolishing special privileges of nobility, subordinating the Church to the state, and introducing liberal ideas such as limited monarchy and full equality before the law

Question 20

(radical left-wing partisans of the
lower classes, or tradesmen who stormed the Bastille

Answer 20

Sans-Culottes

Question 21

reduced power of the bishops
and paid the clergy by the state, and limited powers of the Church

Answer 21

Constitution of the Clergy

Question 22

Louis XVI was put on trial for violating liberties of his subjects by how many votes

Answer 22

1

Question 23

Legalized the guillotine but then died by it

Answer 23

King Louis XVI

Question 24

Mary Antoinette’s last words

Answer 24

Pardon me sir I mean not to do it.

Question 25

what did the national assembly rename itself

Answer 25

National Convention

Question 26

moderate reformers from Bordeaux that dominated the National Convention

Answer 26

Girondins

Question 27

These far mor radical group of people replaced the Girondins

Answer 27

Jacobins

Question 28

These groups were both liberal and bourgeuisie and wanted a centralized government

Answer 28

Girodins and Jacobins

Question 29

80,000 armed Sans-Culottes surrounded the meeting halls of the
National Convention and demanded the immediate arrest of this faction

Answer 29

Girondin