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| Why France was so broke? | They helped fund the American Revolution because it was against their greatest rival, Britain. |
| One valid complaint France's Third Estate had: | They had little say in government because they only had one vote out of 3 in the Estates General. |
| Another valid complaint France's Third Estate had: | They had to pay almost all of the taxes. |
| Yet another valid complaint France's Third Estate had: | They were poor and hungry after 2 years of bad harvests. |
| Why did the Third Estate have an emergency meeting on a tennis court? | Because they were locked out of the meeting of the Estates General. |
| What was the "Tennis Court Oath?" | The Third Estate swore to not stop until they had a new republican government |
| What was the Third Estate's new government called? | The National Assembly |
| This was the Paris prison that represented the "Ancien Regime" to the Third Estate: | The Bastille |
| Why did the rioting mobs storm the prison? | To get weapons. |
| What happened to the Paris prison's warden? | He was murdered and beheaded in the street outside the prison. |
| What Paris political leader was one of the first executed by the mobs in Paris? | The Mayor of Paris |
| What groups of people were targets of the Paris mobs? | Nobility and clergy |
| Slogan chanted by the French Revolutionaries | Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! |
| Where did French nobles escape to? | Neighboring countries. |
| What did French nobles convince France's neighbors to do? | Attack France so the Revolution would be stopped. |
| What did France do when neighboring countries attacked? | Drafted all able-bodied men - almost 1 million! |
| Extremist group that took over France's Revolution: | Radicals |
| Leader of France's Radicals: | Maximilien Robespierre |
| Movement by the Radicals to create a "Republic of Virtue" | The Reign of Terror |
| The latest invention for execution during the Reign of Terror | The guillotine |
| The guillotine was invented by: | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a french surgeon |
| The reason the guillotine was invented: | it was supposed to be painless |
| Radical group of spies that reported suspected enemies of the Revolution: | Committee of Public Safety |
| How many people were executed during the Reign of Terror? | Almost 50,000 |
| What happened to Robspierre? | He was arrested and beheaded along with 21 of his followers in front of a cheering crowd. |
| He was th brilliant young general who took control of France after the Revolution: | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Even though the revolution was to create a republic in France, Napoleon crowned himself this: | Emperor |
| What was a big reason that Napoleon's army was so strong? | They believed in their cause - that they were spreading freedom from Feudalism. |
| How did Napoleon choose officers in his army? | Ability, not whether they were noble or not. |
| What did Napoleon end in countries he conquered? | The Feudal System |
| What 2 things did Napoleon improve? | Education and the law code |
| Best thing about the Napoleonic Code was: | Easier to understand - he cleaned up the law code of the 100's of laws that were never taken off the books. |
| They lost some of the freedoms that they gained under France's Revolution: | Women |
| Old style: | Baroque |
| New Style | Neoclassical |
| France's King during the Revolution: | Louis XVI |
| Compared to Baroque music, classical music is much more: | Formal, less complex |
| The place to be for musicians during the classical era | Vienna, Austria |
| Classical Era's biggest hitmakers: | Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven |
