Question
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Answer
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After the revolution, Napoleon ruled as _________
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Emperor
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When the 1st and 2nd Estates needed money, they taxed the _________ estate.
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3rd
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What organization led France during the terror?
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Committee of Public Safety
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A widespread food shortage
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famine
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What Charles Dickens novel is set in London and Paris during the time of the French Revolution?
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A group of peasant ____________ invaded the Palace in Versailles looking for grain.
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women
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A government ruled by a king or a queen
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Monarchy
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What French queen was beheaded in 1793?
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Marie Antoinette
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What class comprised the "first estate" prior to the revolution?
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Clergy
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On what day of the year was that prison attacked?
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July 14
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The 3rd estate wanted less _______
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tax
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When the king refused to meet, the people met without him at the
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Tennis Court
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Clergy = officials working for the _______
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church
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Marie Antoinette's home country
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Austria
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What prison was stormed in 1789?
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Bastille
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France was out of money after helping the __________ Revolution
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American
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In which decade did most of the French Revolution occur?
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1790
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What does "fraternity" mean?
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Brotherhood
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Napoleon used this same title as the "Presidents" of the Roman Republic
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consul
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The city where most of it happened
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Paris
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What is name of the period (1793 - 94) in which thousands were executed?
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The Reign of Terror
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What did that queen supposedly say that people should eat if they had no bread?
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Cake
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What revolutionary motto from 1790 is still the national motto of France?
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Liberté, egalité, fraternité
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Who led the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Who did the "second estate" include?
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Nobility
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Who became "First Consul" in 1799, then Emperor?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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What class comprised the "third estate" prior to the revolution?
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Commoners
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What device was invented to behead people?
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Guillotine
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What palace was mobbed by peasant women looking for food?
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Versailles
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The three social classes were called "The Three _________"
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Estates
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What French king was beheaded in 1793?
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Louis XVI
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