A | B |
the members of the First Estate | the clergy |
the 3 "estates" in France before the revolution | the clergy, the nobility and the peasants |
the members of the second estate | the nobility |
the members of the third estate | commoners, peasants and middle class |
the French monarchs in 1789 | Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette |
about the peasants- "Let them eat cake" | reportedly what Marie Antoinette said when told there was a shortage of bread |
before the Revolution, the seat of French government | the palace of Versailles |
3 influential philosophers who advacated the rights of normal citizens | Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau |
the Estates General in 1789 | was called together by the king at Versailles |
July 14, French Independence Day, was the storming of.... | the Bastille |
the Third estate declared itself to be | a National Assembly |
the revolutionary city government of Paris | the Commune |
the head of the French National Guard | de la Fayette |
the law of the National Assembly which declared the liberty of individuals | the Declaration of the Rights of Man |
place where the king and queen were quartered in Paris to be watched | the Tuileries |
the famous committee headed by Robespierre | the Committee of Public Safety |
the period where terror was "the order of the day" | The Reign of Terror |
how people were addressed during the revolution | "citizen" |
Robespierre associated this with terror | virtue |
1794-5 | The Great Terror |
"religion" that Robespierre tried to install | Cult of the Supreme Being |
what Marie Antoinette was accused of | incest, spending too much money, high treason |
US event that helped to bankrupt France | the American Revolution |
result of flour costs rising | bread shortage |
"The Incorruptible" | Robespierre |
"The Revolution is about to eat its own" | Those who kill others are themselves killed by others |
the Tennis Court Oath | defiance of the king by the Estates General |
the tricolor | the French flag |
newspaper founded by Jean-Paul Marat | L'ami du peuple |
"the professional malcontent" | Jean-Paul Marat |
the French motto | "liberté, équalité, fraternité" |
inventor of the guillotine | Dr. Joseph Guillotin |
why a doctor invented a guillotine | it was painless and "humane" |
the National Razor | the guillotine |
country that France declared war on in 1792 | Austria |
"sans-culottes" | non-aristocrats |
the Minister of Justice | Danton |
result of Marat urging mobs to kill political prisoners | the September Massacre |
who killed Marat and where | Charlotte Cordé in a bathtub |
painter of Marat's death | David |