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Score: _____ / 15 points Name: _________________________ Hour: __________ Video: The French Revolution 1. How did the population boom affect France in the 18th century? 2.What was the Age of Enlightenment? 3.Why did King Louis XVI convene the Estates-General in 1788? 4.What were the three estates of the Estates-General? 5.What was the Tennis Court Oath? 6. How did peasants react to the storming of the Bastille? 7.What rights are expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? 8.Why did women lead a march to Versailles in October 1789? 9.What forces inside and outside of France opposed the Revolution? 10. How did the 1791 Constitution affect the power of Louis XVI? 11.Who were the Girondin? 12.What was the Committee of Public Safety? 13. How did Robespierre justify the Reign of Terror? 14.What was the Directory? 15. How did Napoleon become the leader of France? Time Line Tennis Court Oath —The sworn act of defiance 1780s — France is nearly bankrupt. and promise of the Third Estate on a Versailles 1788 —The Estates-General convenes. tennis court, on June 20, 1789, to stay assembled 1789 —The Third Estate declares itself the until they wrote a new constitution for France. National Assembly. 1789 —The Third Estate issues the Tennis Court sans-culottes —The nickname for ordinary Oath. French citizens, meaning “without fancy pants.” 1789 — Bastille prison is stormed on July 14th. 1789 — March of the Women to Versailles. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and 1791 — Royal family attempts to escape to Citizen — France’s charter of human rights, Austria. which was adopted in 1789 and served as the 1792 — France declares war on Austria. preamble to the 1791 Constitution. 1792 — Mobs attack the Tuileries Palace. 1792 — National Convention is established and constitutional monarchy —A government with a the monarchy is abolished. constitution, elected representative body and 1793 — Louis XVI, and later Marie Antoinette, are monarch with limited powers. guillotined. 1793–1794 —The Reign of Terror results in Constitution of 1791 — France’s first democratic thousands of deaths. constitution that set up a constitutional monarchy. 1794 — Robespierre is guillotined. 1795 —The French Directory, made up of five counterrevolutionaries — People who oppose directors, takes power. and actively fight against a revolution. 1799 — Napoleon overthrows the Directory. 1804 — Napoleon declares himself the Emperor Girondin —A moderately radical revolutionary of France. faction that controlled France briefly during 1792 1814 —The French monarchy is restored; Louis and 1793 before the rise of the more radical XVIII becomes king. Jacobins. 1815 — Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo. Jacobins —A revolutionary party that became Vocabulary increasingly radical during the Revolution, Bastille —The state prison in Paris, the storming expelled the Girondins and led the Reign of of which by Parisians on July 14, 1789 Terror. symbolized the start of the French Revolution. guillotine —The instrument of execution during Age of Enlightenment —A time of new ideas in the French Revolution. the 18th century when European philosophers, thinkers and writers proposed that man could Committee of Public Safety —The ruling change society for the better. executive committee of the National Convention that presided over the Reign of Terror. Estates-General —The representative assembly of the three estates under the French monarchy Robespierre —The radical leader of the Jacobins before the Revolution. and of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. Third Estate —The commoners in pre- revolutionary France. Reign of Terror —A period of turmoil during the French Revolution, characterized by the Second Estate —The nobility or the land-owning executions of thousands of suspected traitors and upper class in pre-revolutionary France. counterrevolutionaries. First Estate —The clergy in pre-revolutionary Napoleonic Code —A code of civil laws France. established by Napoleon in 1804 that recognized the equality of all citizens. .