HUMANITIES 9 – JEOPARDY REVIEW
FRENCH REVOLUTION
CAUSES
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3 Estates
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Extravagant
Spending
Bad Harvest /Food
Crisis
Britain
Enlightenment
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Class system maintained inequitable distribution of wealth &
privileges
King blamed for doing this
Immediate need of the people that prompted revolution
Wars against this country in 1756 & 1778 were very expensive
A way of thinking that challenged the power of the king and the
church
CLASSES
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Clergy
Nobility
3rd Estate
March on
Versaille
Burgeiosie
Members of the First Estate
Members of the Second Estate
The majority of the French People
Event that had the common people rise up and demand the king come
to Paris
Middle and upper class members of the 3rd estate
PEOPLE
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Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Turgot
Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
The king of France during the revolution
Princess married to France’s monarch
Minister of Finance fired for trying to reform France’s economy
Leader of the Reign of Terror
His overthrow of the Directory was the end of the revolution
PLACES
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Paris
Versaille
Bastille
American
Tuileries
Capital of France
The palace of the Monarchs
Attacked in search of arms July 14, 1789
Soldiers involved in this revolution came home with ideas for change
Paris Palace
GOVERNMENT
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Declaration of
Rights of Man &
Citizens
Estates General
Thermidorians
Committee of
Public Safety
National
Convention
Gave French citizens equal rights and liberties.
Pre-revolutionary group called by the king to help raise taxes
Group who removed Robespierre
Started by Robespierre to deal with France’s economic problems
Representative government of the French Republic
MONARCHY
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Absolute
Monarchy
Varennes
Constitutional
Monarchy
Austria
Prussia &
Austria
The type of government in France prior to the revolution
King & Queen caught here when trying to leave France
Having a king and a constitution
The French Queen was a princess from here
Neighbouring countries threatened war against the revolutionists if
harm came to France’s monarchy
REFORMS
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Liberty Equality
Fraternity
Tennis Court Oath
Lists of Complaints
Law of Maximum
Civil Constitution of
the Clergy
Motto of the revolution
Sworn by the 3rd Estate to stay put until a new constitutions
was drafted
Voters lists of problems
Set limit on the price of goods and wages
Broke government ties with the Catholic church & set many
French Catholics against the revolution
GROUPS
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Sans Coulottes
Philisophes
Girondons
Jacobins
National
Convention
Radical peasant group – didn’t like aristocrats fashions
Group of enlightened thinkers
Moderate Revolutionists – willing to have limited monarchy
Radical revolutionaries
Group who put Louis XVI on trial
TIMELINE
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1789
1793-1794
1793
Great Fear
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1641
Year the revolution began
Reign of Terror
Louis XVI executed
Summer of 1789 when peasants revolted against landlords and
attacked manors
The last year the Estates General met prior to 1789
Tithe
Corvee
Mass Levy
Capitation
Mill Rights
A tenth of your earnings to the church
Peasants required to do unpaid labour on the roads
Required every citizen to participate in the war effort
Head tax to be paid by every citizen
A fee paid to grind grain
TAXES
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