Test Review: The French Revolution
KEY TERMS
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Ancien régime
3 Estates
Bourgeoisie
Deficit spending
Jacques Necker
Estates-General
Cahiers
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille Day
“Great Fear”
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the
Citizen
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”
Tuileries Palace
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Constitution of 1791
Legislative Assembly
Émigrés
Sans-culottes
Jacobins
Radical
Liberal
Moderate
Conservative
Reactionary
“September massacres”
National Convention
Committee of Public Safety
Levée en masse
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean Paul Marat
Reign of Terror
Guillotine
Directory
Napoleon
Trafalgar
Lord Nelson
Continental System
Russian winter
Abdicate
Elba
Louis XVIII
Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
St. Helena
Code of Napoleon (Napoleonic Code)
Congress of Vienna
Clemens von Metternich
Legitimacy
Balance of Power
Nationalism
KEY ISSUES
1. Explain the problems (and their causes) that were plaguing France prior to the
revolution.
2. How did the firing of Jacques Necker and the inherent inequality within the Estates
General directly lead to the revolution?
3. How did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette contribute to their own downfall?
4. What was the status of the Church in French society before the revolution? How did
this status change through the different phases of the revolution?
5. Where would the different French governments fall on the political spectrum and why?
6. Be able to put the governments of the French Revolution and explain each one’s
accomplishments.
7. Was the French Revolution successful? Explain.
8. What caused the meeting known as the Congress of Vienna? What effects did it have
on Europe?