The French RevolutionGrudgeball Review

Which estate was forced to pay the most taxes (taille) BEFORE the Revolution?

The Third Estate

What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen promise to the French people?

Equal rights and liberty for all men The right to do whatever they wanted as

long as it did not harm another person

BONUS SHOT: What was the name of the woman who rewrote the

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and what was her version called?

Olympe de Gouges The Declaration of the Rights of Woman

and [Female] Citizens

What was the vow made during the Tennis Court Oath?

Who made it?(must answer both questions)

Not to leave the tennis court until a new Constitution had been written

The Third Estate

What event marked the beginning of the violent phase of the French Revolution?

The Storming of the Bastille

What was the Woman’s Riot (march) about?

Letting the King and Queen known how outrageous the price of grain and bread had become

BONUS SHOT: What was the significant result of the Woman’s Riot?

It forced the King and Queen out of Versailles and into Paris

Who was leader of the Reign of Terror?

Maxilimien Robespierre

What was the Thermodorian Reaction?

The point where the National Convention tried to cool down the tensions that had existed during the Reign of Terror

What document ordered the clergy to swear allegiance to the state and the National Assembly?

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Who ruled during the Directory?

A two-house legislature and a five-man directory

Who wrote the book “What is the Third Estate?” and what did it convince the Third Estate to do?

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes To break away from the Estates-General

and form the National Assembly

What was the political party of the radicals in France?

Jacobin

Who invaded France during the Revolution, after the National Convention ignored their order to preserve

the King’s life?

Prussia and Austria Later, they were joined by Britain,

Spain, and Holland

Under Robespierre, the Committee of Public Safety and the National Convention tried to de-Christianize

France, what was one way this was done?

Reforming the calendar to remove the religious significance

BONUS SHOT: What was the other way this de-Christianization was done?

Closing down all the churches in Paris

Explain the Great Fear.

The peasants in the countryside heard about the violence in Paris and in fear they started to attack the nobles in the area

Why were Marie Antoinette and Louis captured after they tried to flee Paris?

Someone recognized Louis from a coin

BONUS QUESTION: What city were the captured in?

Varennes

Who was the Jacobin who was killed in his bathtub and who killed him?

Jean-Paul Marat and Charlotte Corday

BONUS QUESTION: Why did she assassinate him?

She did not like the fact that he supported the death of the king

Who was the symbol of excess during the Revolution?

Marie Antoinette

Why did Louis call the Estates-General in 1789?

To get them to officially tax the second estate (nobles)

Why was Louis XVI executed?

Charges of treason and because they wanted to get rid of the king

Why did the National Convention institute the draft of French citizens into the army?

Britain, Holland, and Spain joined on the side of Prussia and Austria, allowing them to start to push the French back