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48 Cards in this Set
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Who belt Versailles? |
King Louis the 15th |
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Louis XVI married a princess from -- |
Austria |
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Louis XV lose which war, leaving France in debt? |
7 Year War/French and Indian War |
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Louis XVI said, upon becoming a king, "Protect us Lord, for we reign too ---" |
Young |
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The Age of --- threatens the new monarchs. |
Enlightment |
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How many estates were there in French society? |
3 |
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The Age of Enlightment chamioned ----. |
Liberty |
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--- bankrupts France. |
America |
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Marie was obsessed with ---. |
Fashion |
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Marie earns the nickname Madam ---. |
Deficit |
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The cost of --- skyrockets and the price of bread ---. |
Flour, rises |
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Louis XVI is forced to call a meeting of the --- --- who hasn't met in 175 years. |
Estate's General |
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Robespierre represents the --- Estate in the meeting. |
Third |
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When the Third Estate is locked out, they move next door and take the --- --- --- and form the National Assembly. |
Tennis Court Oath |
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The city houses --- --- --- in the Bastille |
Its gun powder |
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What is the tri-color? |
Flag of the revolutionaries |
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When Louis asks if it is a revolt at the Bastille, his informer responds, "No it is a ---" |
Revolution |
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The women that took their complaints to the king want Louis and Marie to return to ---. |
Paris |
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Louis and Marie try to escape to ---. |
Austria |
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Beheading was reserved for the ---, and the new --- made execution equal. |
Nobility, guillotine |
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--- joined Austria in the war. |
Prussia |
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Whi were the sans-culottes? |
They were workers who refused to wear the culotte of the aristocracy. |
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More than --- aristocrats are murdered by the sans-culottes. |
1600 |
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The --- wanted to kill the king, while the Girondins weren't sure he had to die. |
Jacobins |
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Jean-Paul Marat soon calls for 200,000 --- to save the revolution. |
Heads |
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Charlotte Corday murders Marat in his ---. |
Bathtub |
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Marie Antoinette was to be --- like her husband. |
Beheaded |
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The Constitution is eventually suspended and anyone perceived to be an enemy of the republic was brought to the national ---. |
Racer |
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The Convention organized a twelve man committee known as the Committee of Public ---. |
Safety |
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The radicals began de-Christianization, replacing saints with --- and redoing the calendar. |
Marat |
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Danton requested to end the ---, and Robespierre had him beheaded. |
Terror |
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Robespierre unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, and was eventually ---. |
Beheaded |
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--- --- eventually consolidated power in his own hands. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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The slogan of the French Revolution is Liberté, Egalité, ---. |
Fraternite |
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When was Magna Carta created? |
1215 |
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Where was Magna Carta created? |
England |
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What event occurred prior to the Magna Carta being created? |
When Henry 2 died, Richard Hon Hearted assumed the throne. He was followed by his brother John, an unpopular King. |
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What democratic ideals does the Magna Carta grant to its citizens? |
Individual rights, liberties, limited government, checks on power. |
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Why is the Magna Carta important in establishing or extending self-government and individual liberty? |
Over the centuries, the document was extended to protect the right of English people. |
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What treaty stopped the war with Britain and USA? |
Treaty of Ghent |
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What is the name of the standard law throughout all of France that Napoleon created? |
Napoleonic Code |
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USA in 1803 was then led by ---, in an exchange known as ---. |
Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase |
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The --- --- allowed Russian troops to launch attacks against Nopoleon's troops. |
Severe Winter |
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Many Spaniard peasants used --- ---, striking against French soldiers to resist Joseph and Napoleon's rules. |
Guerilla Warfare |
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--- burned down valuable areas, such as farms and cities, rendering them useless to the invading French. |
Russians |
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What was the last war Napoleon was in? |
The Waterloo |
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What happened after Napoleon was defeated in the Waterloo War? |
He was exiled to St. Helena. He died in exile and never again was able to gain power in Europe. |
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Was Napoleon overall successful? |
No. |
