French Rev. Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
Fance's chief tax	taille
demanded equal political rights for women from the new French National Assembly	Olympe de Gouge
lawmaking body established by the Constitution of 1791	Legislative Assebly
Radical politcal group made up of the Sans-culottes	Paris Commune
large network of political groups throughout France	Jacobin Club
head of the Committee for Public Safety	Maximilien Robespierre
a sudden overthrow of government	coup d'etat
preserved most of the rights of the people gained by the revolution	Napoleanic Code
island off the coast of Tuscany, where Napolean was first exiled	Elba
site of Napoleon's final defeat	Waterloo
storming of this began the French Revolution	Bastille
wife of King Louis XVI	Marie Antoinette
mandated that clergy were to be elected by the people	Civil Constitution of the Clergy
member os the Paris Commune	Sans-Culottes
used by the revolutionaries to execute opponents	guillotine
democratic nation compsed of good citizens, which the Committee of Public Safety tried to establish	Republic of Virtue
government overthrown by Napoleon's coup d'etat	Directory
prominent critic of Napoleon's rule	Germaine de Stael
Napoleon's plan to weaken the British economy	Continental System
island to which Napolean was exiled after his final defeat	St. Helena
which of France's estates was NOT exempt from the taille?	the third Estate (commoners)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed...	equal rights for all men, but no political rights for women.
Under the Constitution of 1791, the ___________ would make the laws.	Legislative Assembly
Who seized political pwer from the Legislative Assembly?	Paris Commune
The difference betwwen the Girondins and the Mountain was that...	the Girondines leaned toward keeping the king alive, while the Mountain wanted the king executed
__________ was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safetly.	Maximilien Rabespierre
Promotion within Napoleon's new Bureaucracy was...	based on ability only, not rank or birth
the most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was...	the Civil Code
The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by...	waiting to attack during the Brutal Russian winter
The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleaon at	Waterloo in the Belgium
the French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was...	a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constituion
Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly's decrees because...	thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family.
According to the Civil Costitution of the Clergy...	the Church was to be separate from the government
The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the member of this politcal group were...	ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers...	defend france from threats.
in its attempts to creat a new order that reflected its belief in reason, the National Convention...	pursued a policy of dechristianization, going so far as to adopt a new calender.
Napoleaon's coup d'etat overthrew the _________ to establish his consulate.	Directory
The three major parts of Napoleon's Grand Empire were...	the French Empire, the dependend states, and the allied states.
What were the two major reasons that Napoleon's Grand Empire collapsed?	the survival of Great Birtain and the force of nationalism
In his final batter, Napoleon was defeated by...	the Duke of Wellington

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