AP EUROPEAN CHAPTER 18 STUDY GUIDE
“The French Revolution”
Section 1 – The Crisis of the French Monarchy
ID:
1.
Parlement
2.
Louis XVI
3.
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
4.
Estates General
ANSWER:
5.
Identify the various problems within the French monarchies of Louis XV and Louis XVI that would lead to the calling of the Estates General in 1789.
6.
How did minister of finance de Calonne propose to solve the financial crisis of France? What was the response of the Assembly of Notables?
Section 2 – The Revolution of 1789
ID:
7.
Cahiers de Doleances
8.
Tennis Court Oath
9.
Bastille
10.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
ANSWER:
11.
Describe the make-up of the three estates of France within the Estates General on the eve of the revolution.
12.
What attempts were made by the aristocracy to limit the influence of the Third Estate? Were they successful?
13.
Describe the social distance that separated members of the Second and Third Estates.
14.
Identify the various issues presented to Louis XVI in the cahiers de doleances.
15.
What events prompted the Tennis Court Oath? What was its stated goal and resulting impact?
16.
Describe the events surrounding the storming of the Bastille and the Great Fear.
17.
What events transpired on the night of August 4, 1789? In what ways were they significant?
18.
Discuss the economic issues that helped fuel the urban and rural uprisings of 1789.
19.
Identify the political principles set forth in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
20.
What events prompted the women’s “March on Versailles”? What was the end result?
Section 3 – The Reconstruction of France
ID:
21.
Olympe de Gouges
22.
Chapelier Law
23.
Assignats
24.
Émigrés
ANSWER:
25.
Discuss the political changes introduced in France as a result of the Constitution of 1791.
26.
How were peasants and urban workers impacted by the policies of the National Constituent
Assembly?

27.
Discuss the policies of the National Constituent Assembly that had a direct impact on the Catholic
Church. What was the reaction of Pope Pius and other devout Catholics?
28.
Who were the émigrés? What were their goals? How did they attempt to carry them out?
Section 4 – The End of the Monarchy: A Second Revolution
29.
Identify the Jacobins. What were their goals for France? How did the Girondists attempt to carry out these goals?
30.
Discuss the various motivations for the French declaration of war on Austria in 1792.
31.
What role did the women of France play in this war? How did this challenge traditional ideals?
32.
Identify the Paris Commune. How did its actions lead to the creation of a French republic?
33.
Who were the sans-culottes? What were their economic and political goals?
34.
Identify the Mountain. What events would bring the Mountain and sans-culottes to dominate the actions of the Convention and the revolution by early 1793?
Section 5 – Europe at War with the Revolution
35.
Discuss the predictions made by Edmund Burke in “ Reflections on the Revolution in France”.
By
1792 how were other European monarchies responding to the ideas of revolutionary France?
Section 6 – The Reign of Terror
36.
Discuss the motivations of the most extreme phase of the revolution known as the Reign of Terror.
37.
What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety? How was this carried out in the levee en masse?
38.
Describe the characteristics of France as a “Republic of Virtue”. Who was its greatest embodiment?
39.
In what ways were women repressed in the “Republic of Virtue”?
40.
Describe the characteristics of de-Christianization during the Reign of Terror.
41.
During the Reign of Terror who was considered an enemy of the republic? How were they dealt with?
42.
What actions of Robespierre would lead to the end of the Reign of Terror?
Section 7 – The Thermidorian Reaction
43.
Discuss the characteristics of the Thermidorian Reacation.
44.
What impact did the Constitution of the Year III have on the holders of property?
45.
Discuss the challenges faced by the Directory in 1795-96.