Name: ____________________________
The French Revolution
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Directions: Answer the following questions while viewing The History Channel’s The French Revolution. For
words that are italicized and underlined, define from your textbook using pages 651-661. Questions with a (*)
refer to questions you will revisit during the viewing more than once.
1. The French Revolution is considered to be the __________________________ of the modern
world when everything changed.
2. What are some causes of the French Revolution (pp. 651-655)*
3. Who was Maximilian Robespierre and how did he fuel the revolution*?
What was his nickname? ____________________
4. Describe Louis XVI as king*.
5. What two countries and families were united through the marriage of Louis XVI (16th) and Marie
Antoinette?
6. What does the wedding between Louis and Marie symbolize?
7. Describe Marie Antoinette as queen*?
8. Louis XVI inherited an almost bankrupt country because his grandfather Louis XV (15 th) spent so much
on the _________________________________________ in North America.
9. What was life like for the young monarchs at Versailles?
10. At this time the Old Regime of privileged royals, nobles and church officials was being challenged by the
new _______________________________ philosophy.
11. What values of the Enlightenment illustrated the problems that existed in France? (pp. 629-632 & 653662)
12. Louis XVI wanted to revenge his grandfathers defeat and spent lots of money supporting the
___________________________ Revolution?
13. Louis XVI’s wife spent so much money she was called Madam ______________________.
14. The poor French people were burdened with heavy __________________ while the Nobles and the
Catholic Church paid ___________________.
15. Describe the life of ordinary citizens in France (pay attention to their food supply).
16. The crisis came when the price of __________________________ and
_____________________ caused social unrest in the nation already suffering a poor
_____________________________ due to extreme cold temperatures.
17. To address the shortage of revenue, Louis XVI’s finance minister Msr. Necker called for a meeting of the
_______________________________ General.
18. Estates General
19. Estates
First Estate
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Second Estate
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Third Estate
20. The Third Estate represented _______________________ of the population, but only 1/3 of the
total vote.
21. The Third Estate delegate ________________________________________ demanded that
the other two estates pay taxes.
22. The delegates from the Third Estate were ____________________________________ of the
Estates General and had to move to the tennis courts.
23. They took an oath to write a _________________________________ for their new government,
which they called the ___________________________ Assembly.
24. Tennis Court Oath
25. National Assembly
26. In response to the king bringing the army to Paris, the mob riots and attacks the
______________________________ prison/armory.
27. The Bastille
28. What was done to the Bastille?
29. By tearing down this prison, the people were destroying the _______________________.
30. Declaration of the Rights of Man:
31. Who was Jean-Paul Marat*?
32. The bread crisis incited the _______________________________ of Paris to march to the palace
at Versailles and take the royal family back with them.
33. What happens when the mob storms Versailles?
34. Jacobins
35. What will be the very core of the revolution?
36. Louis and his family decided to escape to ________________________, home of the Queen.
37. What happens to Louis and Marie when they flee?
38. Robespierre calls for “Liberty, ___________________________ and
_____________________”
39. What was the Guillotine?
40. The Guillotine was called the _________________________ razor.
41. As the foreign armies of ________________________ and _______________________
advanced on Paris, the mob slaughtered the political ____________________________.
42. Sans-Coulottes
43. The government’s name was changed to the National ____________________________.
44. What crime is Louis XVI found guilty of? ___________________ What happens to him?
__________________
45. Charlotte Corday murdered the writer ______________________________ while he was in a
___________________________.
46. With the death of Marat, he becomes a ____________________________ figure.
47. What crime is Marie found guilty of? _______________________What happens to her?
___________________
48. Reign of Terror
49. The Committee for _________________________________ organized the war effort, the trials,
and execution of counter revolutionaries.
50. De-Christianization
51. What happens to Robespierre?
52. What are some of the long-term effects of the French Revolution?