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28 Cards in this Set
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#1 What happened to France because of the Seven Years War?
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It was in debt
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#2 Why did France look good from the outside?
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art, clothes, food
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#3: The reality was that France had problems. What were they?
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high prices
high taxes Monarchy wasn't listening a feudal system from the middle ages |
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#4: Name the three estates of the Old Regime
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Roman Catholic Church
rich Nobles Third estate = bourgeoisie, workers, peasants |
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#5 Roman Catholic Church
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owned 10% of land and hardly paid any taxes
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#6 Rich Nobles
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owned over 20% of the land and paid almost no taxes
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#7 Third estate
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98% of the population.
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#8 List three factors contributing to the revolutionary spirit
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3rd estate looking for chage / enlightenment ideas spreading / economic problems
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#9 Calonne convinced King Louis to tax the
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nobles
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#10 Necker established the
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Estates General
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#11 The third estate called their own meeting called the
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National assembly
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#12 After no one listened to the national assembly, the 3rd estate
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sat down on the tennis court and demanded a new constitution
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#13 What was the Great Fear?
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fear that the nobles were hiring people to terrorize the revolutionaries
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#14 What did the peasants do because of the Great Fear?
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grabbed torches and pitchforks
burned legal documents that bound them marched on Varsailles |
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#15 Who were the nobles and clergymen afraid of in the Great Fear
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the peasants
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#16 What was the new slogan of the revolution
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"Liberty / Equality / Fraternity"
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#17 What did the National Assembly create when they were in charge of France?
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Limited Constitutional Monarchy
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#18 What did the Limited Constitutional Monarchy say?
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Legislative branch makes laws
King enforces the laws |
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#19 List the three groups that the assembly split into
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Radicals
Moderates Conservatives |
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#20 Why did the National Assembly of France declare war?
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because Austria and Prussia wanted King Louis the XVI back in cnotrol
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#21 What was the name of the new government? (The national assembly became the....)
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National Convention
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#22 What was the most radical group that was part of the new government
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the Jacobin Club
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#23 What did the Jacobins want?
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the trial of King Louis XVI
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#24 What was the invention that helped the Jacobins get what they wanted?
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the guillotine
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#25 Who was the leader of the Jacobins?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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#26 What did the committee of Public Safety do to enemies of France?
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execute them
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#27 What was the reign of terror?
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When Robespierre killed revolutionaries and peasants
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#28 How did the reign of terror finally end?
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Jacobins had Robespierre beheaded
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