A list of Jeopardy terms relating to the French Revolution and Napoleon
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| 18831011 | Estates | Name for the three classes of French society | 0 | |
| 18831012 | Taxes | Clergy and nobles did not pay these | 1 | |
| 18831013 | Middle Class | Class of people most in favor of change | 2 | |
| 18831014 | Marie Antoinette | Wife of the French king, charming and irresponsible | 3 | |
| 18831015 | Clergy | Members of the First Estate | 4 | |
| 18831016 | Nobility | Members of the Second Estate | 5 | |
| 18831017 | Everyone Else (Excluding Clergy and Nobility) | Members of the Third Estate | 6 | |
| 18831018 | Individual Rights (Personal Liberties) | The people had none of these before the Revolution. | 7 | |
| 18831019 | American Revolution | Foreign event that strongly influenced French thinking. | 8 | |
| 18831020 | American Revolutionary War | Foreign war that drained the French treasury in the 1770s | 9 | |
| 18831021 | Estates-General | Body called to meet for the first time in 175 years | 10 | |
| 18831022 | Louis XVI | French king before and during the Revolution | 11 | |
| 18831023 | Credit (Money) | Lack of this caused the king to call on the assembly. | 12 | |
| 18831024 | 1 (One) | Number of votes each estate had in the Estates-General | 13 | |
| 18831025 | Versailles | Site of the costly French court | 14 | |
| 18831026 | Bourgeoisie, Manual Workers, Serfs & Peasants | The three subdivisions of the Third Estate | 15 | |
| 18831027 | Old Regime | The traditional political and social system of France before the Revolution | 16 | |
| 18831028 | Enlightenment | Intellectual movement that strongly influenced French thinking about reform | 17 | |
| 18831029 | Together (Not Separately) | How the Third Estate insisted the Estates must meet | 18 | |
| 18831030 | National Assembly | What the Third Estate declared themselves to be in 1789 | 19 | |
| 18831031 | Tennis Court Oath | Pledge taken by the Third Estate to write a constitution | 20 | |
| 18831032 | Bastille | Parisian fort taken by a mob on July 14, 1789 | 21 | |
| 18831033 | "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" | Slogan of the Revolution | 22 | |
| 18831034 | The People | Source of government authority, according to the Declaration | 23 | |
| 18831035 | Reign of Terror | The wave of killing from 1793 to 1794 | 24 | |
| 18831036 | Guillotine | Instrument used for execution | 25 | |
| 18831037 | Beheading | Fate of Louis XVI and his wife | 26 | |
| 18831038 | Directory | Government of five directors under the third constitution | 27 | |
| 18831039 | (Jean-Paul) Marat | Leader of extreme radicals, assassinated in his bath | 28 | |
| 18831040 | Robespierre, Danton | The two leaders of the radical Jacobins | 29 | |
| 18831041 | Austria, Prussia | Two countries that invaded France in 1792 | 30 | |
| 18831042 | Moderates, Radicals, Conservatives | The three different groups in the Legislative Assembly | 31 | |
| 18831043 | Limited Constitutional Monarchy | Type of government set up by the Constitution of 1791 | 32 | |
| 18831044 | Church | The National Assembly took away this institution's land | 33 | |
| 18831045 | Paris | The royal family and National Assembly moved to this city | 34 | |
| 18831046 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | Document that stated the Revolution's principles | 35 | |
| 18831047 | Tricolor | French flag of three colors adopted in 1789 | 36 | |
| 18831048 | abolishing both serfdom and tax exemptions for nobles and clergy | The two reforms passed by the National Assembly in August 1789 | 37 | |
| 18831049 | Commune | City government of Paris set up by radicals | 38 | |
| 18831050 | National Convention | Elected group that governed France from 1792 to 1795 | 39 | |
| 18831051 | Revolutionary Tribunal | Radical court that tried enemies of the Revolution | 40 | |
| 18831052 | Committee of Public Safety | Committee that directed the army | 41 | |
| 18831053 | Dictator | Type of ruler napoleon was from 1799 to 1814 | 42 | |
| 18831054 | Legislature | This body had no power under Napoleon | 43 | |
| 18831055 | Strong Central Government | Napoleon concentrated authority to create this type of government. | 44 | |
| 18831056 | Emperor | Napoleon's new title from 1804 on | 45 | |
| 18831057 | Relatives | People Napoleon often placed on the thrones of conquered states. | 46 | |
| 18831058 | Corsica | Island where Napoleon was born | 47 | |
| 18831059 | Egypt | Napoleon fought British forces in this African country. | 48 | |
| 18831060 | Coalitions | Alliances formed against France | 49 | |
| 18831061 | Napoleonic Code | New, uniform system of French civil laws | 50 | |
| 18831062 | Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press | The two revolutionary rights Napoleon took away from people | 51 | |
| 18831063 | Notre Dame Cathedral | Paris landmark where Napoleon was crowned | 52 | |
| 18831064 | Conscription (The Draft) | Method of getting soldiers for the Army | 53 | |
| 18831065 | Austria, England | Two countries that made peace with Napoleon in 1801 and 1802 | 54 | |
| 18831066 | Louisiana | Vast territory that Napoleon sold in 1803 to raise money for his army | 55 | |
| 18831067 | Admiral Horatio Nelson | British admiral killed in 1805 in a sea battle against France | 56 | |
| 18831068 | First Consul | Napoleon's title from 1799 to 1804 | 57 | |
| 18831069 | "A Nation of Shopkeepers" | Napoleon expressed contempt for the British by calling them this. | 58 | |
| 18831070 | Continental System | Term for Napoleon's blockade of the British Isle | 59 | |
| 18831071 | Holy Roman Empire | Empire abolished by Napoleon | 60 | |
| 18831072 | Confederation of the Rhine | Union of German states organized by Napoleon | 61 | |
| 18831073 | Austerlitz | Austrian town where Napoleon defeated Russian and Austrian forces in 1805 | 62 | |
| 18831074 | French Revolution | Napoleon's conquests spread the ideas of this movement throughout Europe | 63 | |
| 18831075 | Smuggling | Widespread activity that violated Napoleon's blockade | 64 | |
| 18831076 | Russia | Huge eastern European country Napoleon invaded in 1812 | 65 | |
| 18831077 | Elba | Island off Italy that Napoleon was exiled to | 66 | |
| 18831078 | Waterloo | Napoleon's final defeat | 67 | |
| 18831079 | Nationalism | Napoleon's conquests promoted the growth of this feeling. | 68 | |
| 18831080 | Non-Frenchmen | Drafting of these people weakened Napoleon's army. | 69 | |
| 18831081 | Portugal, Spain | Southern European countries that drove out the French in 1812-3 | 70 | |
| 18831082 | Severe Russian Winter | Natural phenomenon that helped defeat Napoleon in Russia | 71 | |
| 18831083 | Retreat from Moscow | Napoleon's most severe military disaster, 1812-3 | 72 | |
| 18831084 | St. Helena | Island off Africa where Napoleon died | 73 | |
| 18831085 | Duke of Wellington | British commander who defeated Napoleon in the final battle | 74 | |
| 18831086 | Germany, Italy | Napoleon inspired desire for national unity in these two areas. | 75 | |
| 18831087 | Being an army of citizens, not professionals | Important difference between Napoleon's army and earlier armies | 76 | |
| 18831088 | Peninsular War | The war on the Iberian Peninsula | 77 | |
| 18831089 | Guerrilla Warfare | Term for the Spaniards' style of fighting | 78 | |
| 18831090 | "Battle of the Nations" at Leipzig | Napoleon's defeat in 1813 | 79 | |
| 18831091 | Bourbons | Ruling family restored to the French Throne in 1814 | 80 | |
| 18831092 | Louis XVIII | Napoleon's successor as ruler of France | 81 | |
| 18831093 | Hundred Days | Period of Napoleon's final rule in 1815 | 82 |
