Révolution Française
The French Revolution
Terms – Define and explain importance:
“Liberty Leading the People”
Eugène Delacroix (1830)
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Ancien Régim
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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Debt and Deficit
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Estates-General
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French National Assembly
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The Tennis Court Oath
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The Storming of the Bastille
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“The French Plague”
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Declaration of Pilnitz
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Constitutional Monarchy
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The National Convention
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Sans-Culottes
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Jacobins
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The Committee for Public Safety
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Maximilien Robespierre
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The Reign of Terror
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Nationalism
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Constitution of 1795 and the Directory
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Marseilles
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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Plebiscite
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Napoleon crowns himself “Emperor”
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Napoleonic Code
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Napoleonic Wars
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Annexation
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Continental System
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Blockade
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Guerilla Warfare
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Napoleon’s war in Russia
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Napoleon Abdicates
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The Bourbon Restoration (The ascension of Louis XVIII)
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The Hundred Days
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The Battle of Waterloo
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The Congress of Vienna
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Legitimacy (in government)
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Concert of Europe
Questions
1. How did social divisions help fuel the French Revolution?
2. What characteristics about the Third Estate helped fuel the Revolution?
3. Why was the Tennis Court Oath important?
4. Why was the Committee of Public Safety allowed to terrorize France during the Reign of
Terror?
5. How did Napoleon spread the ideas of the Revolution and in what ways did he act
counter to the revolution?
6. In what way was the Continental System a kind warfare?
7. What was the chief goal of the Congress of Vienna?