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| 1118138297 | regime | French word for government | 0 | |
| 1118138298 | old regime | the political, social, and economic system of the 18th century | 1 | |
| 1118138299 | absolute monarchy; people didn't want one person deciding everything; Lettre de Cachet; government was corrupt | What were the political causes of the Abuses of the Old Regime? | 2 | |
| 1118138300 | estates | People didn't like that society was divided into _____ | 3 | |
| 1118138301 | Feudal dues | commoners had to pay a noble for past usage of land | 4 | |
| 1118138302 | clergy | Who made up the 1st estate? | 5 | |
| 1118138303 | nobles | Who made up the 2nd estate? | 6 | |
| 1118138304 | commoners | Who made up the 3rd estate? | 7 | |
| 1118138305 | taille | tax on land | 8 | |
| 1118138306 | gabelle | tax on salt | 9 | |
| 1118138307 | corvee | forced labor on Roads and Bridges | 10 | |
| 1118138308 | tithe | 10% to church | 11 | |
| 1118138309 | 70 | _____% of a commoner's pay went to anyone but them | 12 | |
| 1118138310 | taxes | the economic causes of the abuses of the old regime were mainly caused by _____ | 13 | |
| 1118138311 | Bourgeoisie; Influence of Enlightened Philosophers; Influence of English/American Revolutions; Incompetent and unpopular government; Financial difficulties | What were the secondary causes of the French Revolution? | 14 | |
| 1118138312 | Bourgeoisie | middle class in France | 15 | |
| 1118138313 | status | The Bourgeoisie resented the nobility's ______ | 16 | |
| 1118138314 | Burgesses; Burghers; Bourgeoisie | The 3B's of the Middle Class are England's _______, Germany's _____, and France's ______ | 17 | |
| 1118138315 | Locke; Rousseau; Voltaire; Montesqueiu | Who were the four Enlightened Philosophers who most influenced the French Revolution? | 18 | |
| 1118138316 | successful | Both the American and English Revolutions were _____ | 19 | |
| 1118138317 | Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette | The two rulers of the unpopular and incompetent government were King _____ and Queen _____ | 20 | |
| 1118138318 | Robert Turgot | Who was the finance minister fired by Louis XVI? | 21 | |
| 1118138319 | Meeting of the Estates General | What meeting brought all 3 social classes together? | 22 | |
| 1118138320 | May 1789 | When was the Meeting of the Estates General? | 23 | |
| 1118138321 | 175 | The Meeting of the Estates General in May 1789 was the first in _____ years | 24 | |
| 1118138322 | bankruptcy | The Meeting of the Estates General was called to consider the question of government ______ | 25 | |
| 1118138323 | one; out voted; popular | The problem with the Meeting of the Estates General was that each estate only had ____ vote, so the third estate was ____ ____, and wanted a _____ vote | 26 | |
| 1118138324 | Tennis Court Oath | Pledge by 3rd estate to write a constitution for France | 27 | |
| 1118138325 | National Assembly | The 3rd Estate declared themselves the _____ _____ | 28 | |
| 1118138326 | assembly | law making body | 29 | |
| 1118138327 | Bastille | The storming of the ______ started the French Revolution | 30 | |
| 1118138328 | July 14, 1789 | Date of Bastille Day | 31 | |
| 1118138329 | king | Bastille Day publicly destroyed the symbol of the _____ | 32 | |
| 1118138330 | 1789; 1791 | The works of the National Assembly were from ____-____ | 33 | |
| 1118138331 | tax exemptions; Feudal dues; mandatory church tithes; class distinctions | The National Assembly abolished what four things known as the August decrees? | 34 | |
| 1118138332 | citizens | Because all class distinctions were abolished, people were called these. | 35 | |
| 1118138333 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | French Bill of Rights | 36 | |
| 1118138334 | August, 1789 | When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen written? | 37 | |
| 1118138335 | law | The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen stated that everyone is equal before the ______ | 38 | |
| 1118138336 | speech; press; religion; assembly; unlawful arrest | What five freedoms were given in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? | 39 | |
| 1118138337 | meet | Freedom of assembly meant that groups could ____ | 40 | |
| 1118138338 | Lettre de Cachet | Freedom of unlawful arrest went against the ____ ____ ____ | 41 | |
| 1118138339 | 6000 | How many women and children were in the Women's March on Versailles? | 42 | |
| 1118138340 | October 1789 | When was the Women's March on Versailles? | 43 | |
| 1118138341 | Paris | The result of the Women's March on Versailles was that the King and his family were taken to ____ | 44 | |
| 1118138342 | Civil Constitution of the Clergy | The ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ was the government's way to control the church. | 45 | |
| 1118138343 | elected; paid a salary | The Civil Constitution of the Clergy made sure that all clergy were ____ and ____ ____ ____ | 46 | |
| 1118138344 | 1/5 | The Civil Constitution of the Clergy seized ____ of all church land | 47 | |
| 1118138345 | Oath of France | Didn't want all French money going to Rome. | 48 | |
| 1118138346 | Constitution of 1791 | Established France as a limited monarchy | 49 | |
| 1118138347 | 1791; 1792; year | The Constitution of 1791 lasted from only ____ - ____ (one _____) | 50 | |
| 1118138348 | powers | The Constitution of 1791 established separation of _____ | 51 | |
| 1118138349 | progress; immediately | We often think that change=______, but we always want it _____ | 52 | |
| 1118138350 | Girondists | moderates (bourgeoise); wanted a republic | 53 | |
| 1118138351 | Jacobins | radicals; opposed the King and bourgeoisie favored a republic dominated by poor people | 54 | |
| 1118138352 | newspaper; demonstrations; clubs; leaders | The appeal of the Jacobins was that they issued a ____ and led _____, opened ____ all over France, and had capable _____ | 55 | |
| 1118138353 | Robespierre; Marat; Danton | Who were the three leaders of the Jacobins? | 56 | |
| 1118138354 | Robespierre | Who was the mastermind of the Jacobins? | 57 | |
| 1118138355 | Danton | Which leader of the Jacobins got the army on their side? | 58 | |
| 1118138356 | emigres | (smart) nobles that fled France early in the Revolution | 59 | |
| 1118138357 | nobles; peasants | War against Austria and Prussia was basically _______ against ______ | 60 | |
| 1118138358 | Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! | What was the battle cry of the French Revolution? | 61 | |
| 1118138359 | Liberty | Freedom | 62 | |
| 1118138360 | Fraternity | Brotherhood | 63 | |
| 1118138361 | June 1791 | When did the King escape? | 64 | |
| 1118138362 | August 3, 1792 | When was the Brunswick Manifesto? | 65 | |
| 1118138363 | Duke of Brunswick | Who wrote the Brunswick Manifesto? | 66 | |
| 1118138364 | Prussian | The Duke of Brunswick was the leader of the ____ army | 67 | |
| 1118138365 | harmed; leveled | The Brunswick Manifesto stated that if the Royal Family was _____, Paris would be ______ | 68 | |
| 1118138366 | Storming of the Tuileries Palace | What was the massacre of guards, and trying the King for treason? | 69 | |
| 1118138367 | 2800 | How many people died at the Storming of the Tuileries Palace? | 70 | |
| 1118138368 | 1793 | The National convention was what year? | 71 | |
| 1118138369 | constitution | The National Convention wrote a new _____ | 72 | |
| 1118138370 | virtue | The National Convention called themselves the Republic of _____ | 73 | |
| 1118138371 | Robespierre | Who was the president of the National Convention? | 74 | |
| 1118138372 | sans culottes | Ultra radicals; men without knee britches | 75 | |
| 1118138373 | nobles | The sans culottes wanted to kill all _____ | 76 | |
| 1118138374 | government | The Jacobins seized control of all _____ powers | 77 | |
| 1118138375 | Committee of Public Safety | Dictatorship of Robespierre that uncovered enemies of the Revolution | 78 | |
| 1118138376 | draft | Conscription means _____ | 79 | |
| 1118138377 | Conscription | Draft into French military | 80 | |
| 1118138378 | July 1793; July 1794 | The Reign of Terror lasted from _____ ____ - _____ ____ | 81 | |
| 1118138379 | January; 1793 | The execution of Louis XIV was in _____ 1793 before the beginning of the Reign of Terror, and the execution of Marie Antoinette was in ____ | 82 | |
| 1118138380 | 20,000; 40,000 | ____-____ people were killed during the Reign of Terror | 83 | |
| 1118138381 | Law of Suspects | arrest and execution of suspected traitors and counterrevolutionaries | 84 | |
| 1118138382 | killers | The idea behind ending the Reign of Terror was to kill the _____! | 85 | |
| 1118138383 | Jacobin | the three _____ leaders were killed to end the Reign of Terror | 86 | |
| 1118138384 | Charlotte Corday | Who killed Marat? | 87 | |
| 1118138385 | Marat | Editor of the Jacobin Paper "L'Ami du Peuple" and first Jacobin leader to be killed | 88 | |
| 1118138386 | stabbed | Marat was _____ by Charlotte Corday | 89 | |
| 1118138387 | L'Ami du Peuple | The friend of the People | 90 | |
| 1118138388 | Dantan | Executed by Robespierre | 91 | |
| 1118138389 | Law of Suspects | What did Robespierre use to justify the execution of Dantan? | 92 | |
| 1118138390 | July 27, 1794 | When was Robespierre executed? | 93 | |
| 1118138391 | moderates | When Robespierre was executed, power was passed back to the _____ | 94 | |
| 1118138392 | National Convention; Girondists | The Moderates took control of the _____ ____ and wrote a new constitution of the _____ | 95 | |
| 1118138393 | Constitution of 1795 | What created a two house Parliament and Directory government? | 96 | |
| 1118138394 | Elders; 500 | The two houses of Parliament were the Council of ______ and the Council of ______ | 97 | |
| 1118138395 | elected | The five directors were _____ from the Council of Elders | 98 | |
| 1118138396 | 5; executive | There were ____ directors in the Directory and they formed the ____ branch of French government | 99 | |
| 1118138397 | 1795; 1799 | The Directory lasted from _____ - _____ | 100 | |
| 1118138398 | inflation; food shortages; unrest; relying on the army for support | What were the four Problems with the Directory? | 101 | |
| 1118138399 | November 9, 1799 | When was the Directory Overthrown? | 102 | |
| 1118138400 | General Napoleon Bonaparte | Who overthrew the Directory? | 103 | |
| 1118138401 | Military | General Napoleon Bonaparte established what kind of dictatorship? | 104 | |
| 1118138402 | coup d'etat | What is French for a military overthrow? | 105 | |
| 1118138403 | Abuses of Old Regime eliminated; Introduction to Democratic Rights; Nationalism; Educational Improvements; World Influence | What were the five results of the French Revolution? | 106 | |
| 1118138404 | conscription; La Marseillaise; Bastille Day | List the three parts of French Nationalism | 107 | |
| 1118138405 | La Marseillaise | French National Anthem | 108 | |
| 1118138406 | whiff of grapeshot | Napoleon gave the rioting crowd a "____ ___ ____ | 109 | |
| 1118138407 | metric system; national system of education | What were the two Educational improvements of the French Revolution? | 110 | |
| 1118138408 | guide | Other countries started to look to French Revoluion as a _____ | 111 | |
| 1118138409 | Madame Tussaud | artist who got to live if she made death masks of Reign of Terror victems | 112 |
