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The National Assembly The Estates General The Legislative Assembly The National Convention Vocabulary/ Miscellaneous The French Revolution

WORTH: What were the thirteen parlements, led by the French parlement? SUBJECT: The Estates General MAIN These were the royal courts and strongholds of the aristocracy that resisted change, especially when applied to the aristocracy.

WORTH: What were the, War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748), The Seven Years War (1756 – 1763) The American Revolutionary War ( )? These were the three expensive wars that were fought leading up to the French Revolution and exhausting the French Treasury MAIN SUBJECT: The Estates General

WORTH: Who was Jacques Robert Turgot, Jacques Necker, Charles Calonne, Lomenie Brienne, and Jacques Necker again? These were the different financial advisers appointed by Louis XVI to help solve the financial crisis MAIN SUBJECT: The Estates General

WORTH: What were the cahiers des doleances? These were the lists of grievances drawn up by the three Estates to try and limit royal authority MAIN SUBJECT: The Estates General

WORTH: What was the National Assembly also called The Constituent Assembly? This was the combined single body legislature that was initiated by the Third Estate after five weeks of stalemate on voting procedures in MAIN SUBJECT: The Estates General

WORTH: What was the Tennis Court Oath? This was the famous pledge by the National Assembly to write a Constitution for France SUBJECT: The National Assembly MAIN

WORTH: What was the Bastille? This was the prison in Paris that was stormed by the Paris mob on July 14 th, 1789 and even though it only housed seven inmates it became the symbol of the beginning of the French Revolution MAIN SUBJECT: The National Assembly

WORTH: Who was Marquis de Lafayette or Gilbert du Motier? He took control of the National Guard which restored order in Paris and was later ousted by the Jacobins and forced to flee and captured by the Austrians MAIN SUBJECT: The National Assembly

WORTH: What was the “Great Fear” This was the mass hysteria that swept the French countryside in rumors of invasion or armies of brigands and led to destruction of property and lives in the provinces in MAIN SUBJECT: The National Assembly

WORTH: What was the Declaration of Rights of Man and of Citizen? This was the French document that was based on the American Declaration of Independence and drawn up by the National Assembly in August of MAIN SUBJECT: The National Assembly

WORTH: What were the 83 Departments? These were the 83 districts that France was divided up into in 1791 and by the new Constitution MAIN SUBJECT:The Legislative Assembly

WORTH: What was the title of nobility and the feudal obligation of serfdom as well as recognizing the rights of blacks in France and mulattoes in the Caribbean? These were two institutions that were eliminated by the National Assembly when they wrote the Constitution of MAIN SUBJECT:The Legislative Assembly

WORTH: What were the assignats? These were the bonds issued by the National Assembly and backed by selling church lands which were now considered to be property of the French state MAIN SUBJECT:The Legislative Assembly

WORTH: Who was Jacques Pierre Brissot? He was the French minister who urged the declaration of war on Austria and later Prussia by the Legislative Assembly MAIN SUBJECT:The Legislative Assembly

WORTH: What were the Jacobins and Girondists who sat on the left of the Legislative Assembly the Feuillants, who were Constitutional Monarchists who sat on the right ? These were the radical parties of the Legislative Assembly that sat on the left side of the assembly MAIN SUBJECT:The Legislative Assembly

WORTH: Who was Maximilian Robespierre? He was the radical leader of the Jacobins and later helped lead the Reign of Terror SUBJECT: The National Convention MAIN

WORTH: What was the Paris Commune? This was the government of Paris that took control of France in 1792 from the Legislative Assembly and took the country in a radical move toward a Republic MAIN SUBJECT: The National Convention

WORTH: Who was Jean-Paul Marat? This was the radical journalist who was stabbed in his bathtub by the Girondist, Charlotte Corday MAIN SUBJECT: The National Convention

WORTH: Who were the sans-culottes? These were the artisans and shop keepers who came to dominate Parisian and therefore French politics MAIN SUBJECT: The National Convention

WORTH: What was the Committee of Public Safety ( led by Robespierre) ? This was the group of twelve men who led the police and court tribunals in eliminating the enemies of the state and starting a levee en masse or national draft MAIN SUBJECT: The National Convention

WORTH: What was the Thermidorian Reaction ? This was the name given to the overthrow of Robespierre and his radical government and his eventual execution MAIN SUBJECT:Vocabulary/Miscellaneous

WORTH: What was the Declaration of Pilnitz? This was the decree issued by Leopold II of Austria, Frederick William II of Prussia, and Louis XVI’s brother Charles-Phillipe, the Comte d’Artois at a castle in Dresden vowing support for the King of France and possible invasion MAIN SUBJECT:Vocabulary/Miscellaneous

WORTH: Who were the emigres? This was the group of aristocrats, conservatives, and moderates who fled France throughout the Revolution and were condemned by the radicals if they returned to France MAIN SUBJECT:Vocabulary/Miscellaneous

WORTH: What are the tricolor Flag and the National Anthem, La Marseillaise? These were the two national symbols of the French Revolution that still exist today as French national symbols MAIN SUBJECT:Vocabulary/Miscellaneous

WORTH: What was the Directory? This was the government established in the new Constitution of 1795 which was not a democracy or republic or dictatorship MAIN SUBJECT:Vocabulary/Miscellaneous