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french revolution
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What events influenced the French Revolution? | the Enlightenment and the American Revolution |
| Name the 3 social classes of French society before the revlution. | priests, nobles, and peasant(some were rich in the 3rd estate but they were not friends with the king) |
| What was the French middle class called? | commoners |
| What year did the French Revolution begin? | 1789 |
| Name 3 causes of the French Revolution. | financial crisis, unequal taxes, adn peasants were hungry |
| In response to the growing discontent of French society, King Louis XVI called a meeting of what group in order to calm everyone's fears? | Estates-General |
| At the meeting with the Estates-General, they met on a tennis court and formed what government? | National Assembly |
| On July 14th, the 3rd estate stormed what prison in order to acquire gunpowder in case King Louis XVI ordered troops to attack them? | Bastille |
| What person, who fought in both the American and French Revolutions, wrote the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen shortly after this prison was attacked? | Marquis de Lafayette |
| In 1791, the National Assembly declared France a _____________ monarchy. King Loise XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, tried to flee to Austria but were detained before crossing the border. | constitutional |
| What did other absolute monarchs in Europe think about the French Revolution? | frightened that their people would get the same idea as them and then revolt against him |
| People called_______ then tried to take over government. These people favored quick change in the government and began to using the guillotine on those who were susupected of being pro-monarchy. | radicals |
| King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, along with 40,000 others, were executed during the what? | Reign of Terror |
| How did England, Spain, the Netherlands, and Austria respond to the execution of the king and queen? | they declared war on France |
| Who was the man who led the Reign of Terror and what was his occupation before becoming the head of the National Convention? | Maximilian Robespierre; used to be a lawyer |
| When the French became alarmed with the overzealous actions of Robespierre, what did they do to him? | they beheaded him |
| In 1797, the French people wanted a return to stability and chose a general named_________ as their hero. | Napolean Bonaparte |
| Napolean Boneparte soon performed a coup de' tat in order to take over the French government. What is a coup de' tat? | something that happens very quick (like overnight) |
| In 1804, declared himself_____________ of France. | emperor |
| What was the Napoleonic Code? | a new legal code for France |
| Name 1 social, political, and economic change that Napoleon brought to France. | social-ended the 3 estate; political-meritocracy; economical-all citizens had to pay taxes and not just the peasants |
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