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French Revolution

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  • How were the states made up and what was their voting capacity?
    1 State: Monarchy (one vote). 2 State: Clergy-Nobility (one vote) 3 State: Bourgeousie-Popular class (one vote)
  • What was the name of the event in which Napoleon took the power from the French Directory.
    Coup d'état
  • What happened on July 14th, 1789?
    The Parisians seized the Bastille.
  • How the hierarchy was organized in France before the revolution?
    Absolute Monarch-Clergy-Nobility-Bourgeousie-Popular class.
  • What is the term for a government where a king holds all the power?
    Absolute monarchy
  • What was the concept on which the bourgeoisie based itself to start the revolutionary movement?
    Illustration
  • Name at least three reasons why the French Revolution began.
    Free
  • Peasants were a part of which class?
    The peasants were a part of the lower classes.
  • Who was the leader of the revolution during the reign of terror?
    Maximilien Robespierre
  • When was King Louis XVI guillotined?
    Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793.
  • What is famine? One of the reason o the French Revolution.
    extreme scarcity of food