What famous revolutionary document What French ruler was executed by stated the philosophy of liberty, guillotine on January 31, 1793? equality, and fraternity ?
Louis XVI Declaration of the Rights of Man
What revolutionary document gave What song, written by Rouget de the French people the power to elect Lisle, became the French national bishops and priests? anthem?
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
What early French political party What group led the Reign of Terror in represented the provinces and France? members of the bourgeoisie?
Committee of Public Safety Girondists (Girondin)
What radical French political party What major leader of the Reign of was led by Danton, Marat, and Terror was himself sent to the Robespierre? guillotine in July, 1794?
Jacobins Maximilien Robespierre
What was established on September What government was established in 22, 1792? France in 1795?
First French Republic Directory
Student Handouts (Order #3780851) What are the four periods of the What organization was called into French Revolution? session on May 5, 1789? National Assembly (1789-1791), Constituent Assembly (1791-1792), Estates-General Convention (1792-1795), and Directory (1795-1799)
Following the storming of the What French writer wrote and Bastille, Parisians organized their ? own government, known as what?
Rousseau (1712-1778) Commune
What infamous Paris structure was What is the name of the French flag, attacked on July 14, 1789? adopted during the revolution?
Bastille Tricolor (blue, white, red)
What was the name of the promise What was the name of Louis XVI s made by the National Assembly, palace home, located just outside of whereby members vowed to write a Paris? constitution for France?
Versailles Tennis Court Oath
How did most people in France earn a living at the time of the French What was the ? Revolution?
A tax on goods brought into town Farming (agriculture)
Student Handouts (Order #3780851) What was the ? What was the ?
Land tax Poll tax
What was the ? What was the ?
Forced roadwork Salt tax
What name was adopted by the Third What was the ? Estate?
Income tax National Assembly
What group made up the First Before the French Revolution, who Estate? issued all of France s laws?
Clergy King
What group made up the Second Before the French Revolution, who Estate? levied all of France s taxes?
Nobility King
Student Handouts (Order #3780851) Which of the three estates had Before the French Revolution, who almost no rights or privileges? appointed France s judges?
Third Estate King
What is the French word for the What were ? middle class?
Blank warrants of arrest Bourgeoisie
What were the thirty petty tyrants, What was the name of France s or governors of France s thirty legislature before the revolution? districts, called?
Estates-General
What woman assassinated Whose rise to power marks the end of revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat the French Revolution? while he was relaxing in his bathtub?
Napoleon Bonaparte Charlotte Corday
What French scientist, responsible for What Frenchman painted naming oxygen and hydrogen as well as for helping to construct the metric and ? system, died on the guillotine in
1794?
Jacques-Louis David Antoine Lavoisier
Student Handouts (Order #3780851) What military commander, born in What French feminist wrote 1735, became general of the French army in Alsace on 1791? in 1791?
Francois Kellerman Olympe de Gouges
What famous woman, a supporter of What revolutionary leader of the the Girondists, was executed on the Jacobin party was assassinated in his guillotine in 1793, after uttering the bathtub by Charlotte Corday? words: Oh Liberty, what crimes are
committed in thy name ?
Jean-Paul Marat Madame Roland
The French national holiday is Who was the Austrian-born wife of celebrated every year on what day? Louis XVI?
July 14th Marie Antoinette
What Paris administrative building What revolt, which ended the Reign was the setting for many important of Terror, took place on July 27, 1794? events of the French Revolution, including the shooting of Robespierre in 1794? Thermidorian Reaction Hotel de Ville
What Frenchman, who served as the What decapitating device was used to first president of the Committee of execute thousands of people during Public Safety, was executed on the the French Revolution? guillotine on April 5, 1794?
Georges Danton Guillotine
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