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
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 lead directly 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. What was the Reign of Terror? How did it begin and end?
6. Be able to put the governments of the French Revolution and explain each one’s
accomplishments.
7. Know all parts of the political spectrum.
Where would the different French governments fall on the political spectrum and why?
8. Was the French Revolution successful? Explain.