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Revolution

Milestones French Laws

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French Roulette

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This June 20, 1789 pledge by the Third

Estate proclaimed it the sovereign power of

France while promising to create a constitution.

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What is the Tennis Court

Oath?

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This earlier foreign Revolution contributed to France’s enormous debt and also inspired liberals to demand more political

liberty.

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What is the American

Revolution?

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This philosophe advocated a

constitutional monarchy, similar to that of Britain, based

on separation of powers.

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Who is Montesquieu?

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This clergyman in 1789 proclaimed

that the Third Estate was

“Everything!”

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Who is

Abbé Sieyès?

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This was a list of grievances created by

each of the three estates regarding

dissatisfaction with the government of

Louis XVI.

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What is cahiers de doléances?

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This violent event in Paris on July 14, 1789,

inadvertently saved the National Assembly. Paris was now lost to the king!

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What is the storming of the

Bastille?

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This 1789 document became the blueprint

for the French Constitution of 1791

and was largely based on classical liberalism.

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What is the Declaration of the Rights of

Man?

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This 1794 reaction ended the Reign of Terror and restored

some order to France.

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What is the Thermidorian

Reaction?

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The coup d’etat Brumaire led to the rise of this

leader.

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Who is Napoleon

Bonaparte?

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This small group, led by Robespierre, oversaw the Reign

of Terror.

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What is the Committee of Public Safety?

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This set of laws, established after 1799, became the

foundation of French law all the way up to

the present.

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What is the Code Napoleon?

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This law represented the biggest mistake of the National Assembly as it

made the Church a department of the national

government, in essence, secular control.

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What is the Civil

Constitution of the Clergy?

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In August of 1789, this social system was

abolished by the National Assembly, and freed

peasants of their obligations.

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What is feudalism?

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This document officially created a

constitutional monarchy after Louis XVIII was restored to

the throne.

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What is the Charter of

1814?

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This 1791 law made guilds, trade unions,

and strikes illegal, due to the Revolution’s

early belief in laissez faire.

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What is the Le Chapelier Law?

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Napoleon created this economic alliance in 1806 that sought to

destroy Britain’s trade with Continental

Europe.

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What is the Continental

System?

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With his creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, Napoleon officially killed this

centuries-old empire in Germany.

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What is the Holy Roman Empire?

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Napoleon developed this system of promotion

where talented people could rise up the social

ladder, even if they were not born wealthy.

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What is Careers Open

to Talent?

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With this 1801 agreement, Napoleon reestablished

relations with the Catholic Church, although the French gov’t retained

Church lands and the power to appoint bishops.

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What is the Concordat of

1801?

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This was the first country to rebel against

Napoleon’s rule. It resulted in a bloody

guerilla war.

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What is Spain?

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Hysteria surrounding Prussia’s invasion of

France in Sept., 1792, led to this “slaughter of the innocents” in Paris.

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What are the September Massacres?

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This military alliance against France began in 1792 and lasted 5 years until its defeat

in 1797.

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What is the First

Coalition?

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This 1791 Austro-Prussian statement was actually a

bluff to placate French émigres. It demanded that

Louis XVI be restored to power.

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What is the Declaration of

Pillnitz?

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Instituted by Lazare Carnot in 1793, this order

called for universal conscription into the

French army to counter foreign military threats.

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What is the levée en masse?

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This declaration by Prussia, after it had

invaded France, warned French revolutionaries

that Paris and its citizens would be destroyed if

harm came to the royal family.

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What is the Brunswick Manifesto?

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The First Estate included this strata of French society.

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What is the clergy?

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The bourgeoisie in France belonged to this

Estate.

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What is the Third Estate?

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Printed during the Revolution, this was the first paper currency in French history. It was backed by the value of

confiscated lands.

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What are assignats?

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The French Revolution saw the introduction of

this new system of weights and measures.

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What is the metric

system?

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This August 10, 1792 Parisian uprising resulted in the slaughter of Swiss

Guards protecting the royal family and signaled the beginning of the “2nd

Revolution.”

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What is the storming of the Tuleries?

Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6French

FactionsBooks and

Art War, etc.

Phases of the

Revolution

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This rowdy faction consisted of the Parisian working class and small

merchants who were responsible for much of

the Revolution’s violence.

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What is the sans culottes?

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This “left” faction, named after a political club, first

came to prominence during the Legislative Assembly

and it dominated the National Convention.

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What is the Jacobins?

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During the National Convention, this sub-faction

pushed France in a more radical direction and included the likes of

Robespierre, Danton and Marat.

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What is the Mountain?

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This quasi-socialist faction, led by

Gracchus Babeuf, sought to overthrow

the Directory in 1797.

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What is the “Conspiracy of

Equals?”

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Though slightly radical, this faction was more rural and moderate

than its main competitor on the

“left,” and it led France into war in 1792.

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What is the Girondins?

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This French feminist wrote the Rights of Woman demanding more political and

economic rights for women.

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Who is Olympe de Gouges?

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This English conservative defended the Old Regime in his

Reflections on the Revolution in France

(1792).

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Who is Edmund Burke?

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This British woman wrote Vindication of

the Rights of Woman.

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Who is Mary Wollstonecraft

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This British writer and deist defended the

French Revolution as the embodiment of

Enlightenment ideals in his Rights of Man

(1793).

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Who is Thomas Paine?

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This famous French neo-classical artist

embodied the ideals of the French Revolution

and the Napoleonic Era.

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Who is Jacques-

Louis David?

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Occurring in 1815, this was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars.

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What is Waterloo?

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Negotiations for the end of the Napoleonic Wars occurred at this 1814-

1815 convention.

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What is the Congress of

Vienna?

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This naval battle, won by Lord Horatio

Nelson, effectively saved Britain from

invasion while crippling the French

fleet.

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What is the Battle of

Trafalgar?

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Napoleon’s victory over Austria and Russia in

this 1805 battle effectively made

Napoleon the master of the European continent.

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What is the Battle of

Austerlitz?

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This 1812 battle was perhaps the most

important of the Russian campaign as the Grand Army paid a high price

while the Russians retreated in good order.

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What is Borodino?

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This was the first national government of the French Revolution:

1789-1791.

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What is the National

Assembly?

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These are the years for the “Age of

Voltaire,” in effect, “enlightened despotism.”

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What is 1799-1815?

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This bourgeois government ruled France between 1795 and 1799.

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What is the Directory?

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These were the years that the National

Convention theoretically ruled

France.

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What is 1792-1795?

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These are the years for the “Age of

Montesquieu” which included the National

Assembly and the Legislative Assembly.

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What are 1789-1792?

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Robespierre issued this law in 1794 to establish price ceilings for food and other necessities.

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What is the Law of

Maximum?

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The Temple of Reason was the most notorious

example of this deist movement of Robespierre.

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What is the Cult of the Supreme Being?

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In the government’s attempt to eliminate

aspects of Christianity from society, this new

system keeping track of days and months was

created.

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What is the Revolutionary

Calendar?

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This law gave Robespierre the right to

arrest anyone who might be a threat to the

regime.

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What is the Law of

Suspects?

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This western region of France suffered a near

genocide when it resisted the

revolutionary government.

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What is the Vendée?

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This royal family member was

decapitated in 1793, several months after

her husband.

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Who is Marie Antoinette?

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In this October, 1789 event, a crowd of angry women

forced the royal family back to Paris while singing, “we have the baker, the baker’s wife, and the baker’s little

boy.”

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What is the Women’s March on

Versailles?

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In the late 1780s, this powerful body of nobles in Paris refused to grant Louis XVI tax increases

on the nobility.

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What is the Parlement of

Paris?

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This term refers to the king’s attempt

to escape from France in 1791.

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What is the “Flight to

Varennes?”

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This body of high-ranking Frenchmen in 1788 forced

the king to call the Estates General in to

address the issue of tax increases.

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What is the Assembly of Notables?

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This 1789 wave of violence in the

countryside directly led to the end of feudalism

in France.

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What is the Great Fear?