Indiana Academic Super Bowl
2016 Academic Coaches Conference
Senior Division Social Studies
A Program of the Indiana Association of School Principals
Senior Social Studies– French Revolution
I. The History of the French Revolution – 40%
A.
The Ancien Regime
1. Louis XVI and Crisis of Absolutism
2. Attempts to Preserve the Ancien Regime
3. Collapse of Ancien Regime
B.
Establishment of Constitutional Monarchy
1. Development of Revolutionary Factions
2. Political Polarization and Violence
3. War with Austria
4. Collapse of Constitutional Government
Senior Social Studies– French Revolution
C.
D.
Establishment of Radical Republic
1. War, Rebellion and Political Purges
2. The Reign of Terror
3. Collapse of Jacobin Dictatorship
The Thermidorian Reaction
1. Attempts to Establish Moderate Republic
2. Attempts to Restore Domestic Peace
and Stability
3. War and Foreign Policy
4. Establishment of Military Dictatorship
and Napoleon
Senior Social Studies– French Revolution
II.
Revolutionary Women – 60%
A.
Germaine de Stael, progressive aristocrat
B.
Pauline Leon, radical sans-culotte
C.
Theroigne de Mericourt, radical feminist
D.
Theresia Carbarrus Fontenay, aristocratic
republican
E.
Manon Roland, bourgeois republican
F.
Juliette Recamier, fashionable salonniere
G.
Other significant women
Senior Social Studies– French Revolution
Resources:
•A Concise History of the French Revolution
by Sylvia Neely
•Liberty: The Lives & Times of Six Women in
Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore (For downloading
instructions needed to purchase this ebook contact Rob
Joiner at Barnes and Noble in Greenwood at
[email protected]
Madam Veto had promised
To cut everyone’s throat in Paris,
But she failed to do this,
Thanks to our gunners.
The Swiss had promised,
That they would fire on our friends,
But how they jumped!
How they all danced!
Mr. Veto had promised
To be loyal to his country,
But he failed to be,
Let us show no mercy.
When Antoinette saw the tower,
She wanted to turn back.
She is sick at heart
To see herself without honor.
Antoinette had decided
To drop us on our arses;
But the plan was foiled
And she fell on her face.
Her husband, thinking he was victorious,
Little did he know our value,
Go, Louis, big crybaby,
From the Temple into the tower.
The Refrain
Let us dance the Carmagnole
Long live the sound,
Lone live the sound.
Let us dance the Carmagnole
Long live the sound of the cannons!
2017 Academic Super Bowl
 Ancien
Régime
 Constitutional
Monarchy
 Radical
Republic
 Thermidorian
Reaction
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Associate Professor of History
at Pennsylvania State
University, since 1998
Associate Professor of History
at Saint Louis University,
1992-98
Associate Professor of History
at Indiana University-Purdue
University at Fort Wayne
1987-1992
Duke University. B.A.,
French, 1965.
New York University. M.A.,
French, 1969.
University of Notre Dame.
M.A., History, 1975. Ph.D.,
History, 1981.
I deeply appreciate your work with
the students in Indiana. I retain
a great fondness for Indiana from
having lived in Fort Wayne for 20
years and teaching at Indiana
University-Purdue University, where
I occasionally did help with
History Day competitions. I wish
you great success on this year’s
program. I am honored to be a part
of it.
 Germaine
 Pauline
de Staël
Léon
 Théroigne
Méricourt
de
 Theresia
Carbarrus
Fontenay
 Manon
Roland
 Juliette
Récamier
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Born in London and
raised in Massachusetts
Educated at Edinburgh
University in Scotland
Writes for a wide variety
of British magazines and
newspapers as well as
The Washington Times
Author of books of British
history as well as the
best seller Maharanis:
The Lives and Times of
Three Generations of
Indian Princesses
The Revolution brought into the open social
conflicts that had been kept in check under
the Ancien Régime. Indeed, the Revolution
made those social divisions only worse. The
struggles over religion created animosities
that survived throughout the 19th Century.
The competing ideologies of the
revolutionary era were not forgotten. They
have continued to animate political debate
in France and around the world to the
present. The final word on the meaning of
the French Revolution is still to come.
--- Sylvia Neely
From Considérations sur
la Nature de la Révolution
de France by Jacques
Mallet du Pan, 1793
 Ancien Régime collapses. Moderate
reformers establish constitutional
monarchy. Revolution continues to drift
violently to the left.
 Factions develop as monarchists gradually lose
ground. Middle and lower class radicals demand
greater change. Violence increases.
 Radicals establish republic amid invasion and civil
war; mobilize against foreign enemies; use terror to
combat counter-revolutionaries and to eliminate
revolutionary rivals.
 Amid frenzy of bloodshed, coalition of radicals and
moderates use military force to reestablish order.
Military dictatorship brings Revolution to an end.
Revolutionary poissardes standing over the
body of the Princess Marie-Therese de
Lamballe during the September Massacres.
 Social
and political
status of women
 Misogyny in
Revolutionary
France
 Importance of
various groups of
women on the
Revolution
 Importance of
specific individual
women on the
Revolution
 Personal
life stories
 Family and lovers
 Social and political status
 Participation in the Revolution
 Political beliefs
 Statements and writings
 Associates and enemies
 Strengths and weaknesses
 Statements about them
 Actions for and against them
 Successes and failures
 Lives after the Revolution
Six Children
of the
Revolution
2017 Academic Super Bowl
The French Revolution
I. The History of the French Revolution (40%)
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Ancien Régime
a. Louis XVI & Crisis of Absolutism
b. Attempts to Preserve the Ancien Régime
c. Collapse of Ancien Régime
Establishment of Constitutional Monarchy
a. Development of Revolutionary Factions
b. Political Polarization & Violence
c. War with Austria
d. Collapse of Constitutional Government
Establishment of Radical Republic
a. War, Rebellion, & Political Purges
b. The Reign of Terror
c. Collapse of Jacobin Dictatorship
The Thermidorian Reaction
a. Attempts to Establish Moderate Republic
b. Attempts to Restore Domestic Peace & Stability
c. War & Foreign Policy
d. Establishment of Military Dictatorship & Napoléon
II. Six Revolutionary Women (60%)
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
Germaine de Staël, progressive aristocrat
Pauline Léon, radical sans-culotte
Théroigne de Méricourt, radical feminist
Theresia Carbarrus Fontenay, aristocratic republican
Manon Roland, bourgeois republican
Juliette Récamier, fashionable salonnière
Other significant women
Because students are
unfamiliar with much of
the information in the
assigned texts,
extensive and detailed
reading and study
guides identify the most
significant content in
the two texts. All
contest questions
relate to this guide.
Students may benefit
from preparing note
cards based on the
guides.
2017 Social Studies Study Guide
Important Individuals
Note that some individuals are often referred to by different names and
titles. Questions may refer to some individuals with more than one name if
the alternative is labeled “also” or “then.” Otherwise, the individual will be
referred to by the shorter name, usually without any noble title. Names in
red belonged to individuals who were murdered, executed, or died in prison
or who committed suicide during the Revolution.
The list of major characters in both the Neely text and the Moore text is not
long. However, many of the names that follow are of minor characters who
appear in the texts only irregularly or for short periods of time. In order to
prepare for the contest, one should differentiate between the major and
minor characters. Summarizing the importance of the minor characters on
three-by-five cards would be helpful. The six women in Moore’s book are
the most important individuals though some others such as Louis XVI and
Robespierre are also major characters.
Monarchs
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Louis XVI
Comte de Provence (also Louis
XVII)
The Dauphine (also Louis XVII)
Frederick William of Prussia
Joseph II of Austria
Leopold II of Austria
Marie Antoinette
Men & Women of the Ancien Régime
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François de Blanc
Loménie de Brienne
Calonne (Charles Alexander de
Calonne)
Denis Diderot
Marie-Thérèse de Lamballe
Lamoignon (Chrétian François
Lamoignon)
Lucy de la Tour du Pin
The Baron de Montesquieu (Charles
Louis de Secondat)
Jacques Necker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Turgot (Anne Robert Jacques
Turgot)
 Important Individuals: The names of all of
the individuals who appear in questions and
answers. Note: names of individuals who
were executed, died in prison, or committed
suicide during the Revolution are in red.
 Important Events & Issues: Chronology of
all of the events and issues that appear in
questions and answers.
 Important Terms: Lists of the governments
of France from 1792 through 1815 and the
most important revolutionary political clubs
and factions.
 French Words & Phrases: All of the French
words and phrases that appear in questions
and answers.
quizlet.com/151616633/hanlins
-list-flash-cards/alphabetical
Do not
ignore
the study
guide!
As they read Liberty,
students may refer to
the reading guide in
order to understand the
separate but linked
narratives of the lives
of the six revolutionary
women as well as their
relationships with other
individuals.
Reading
Guide
Liberty: The Lives and Times
of Six Women in Revolutionary
France
By Lucy Moore
Note that the major personalities in this book (and therefore the contest questions) are the six
women described below. Several others appear only as minor characters and for very short time
periods. Study efforts should focus on the six women and their actions, statements,
accomplishments, and failures as well as what others thought or said of them or how others
treated them. Many of the other individuals (men and women) are important only in the way
they related to the six women. Some had important but very limited impact.
P auline
L éon
 28 September 1768 to 5 October 1838
 Father: chocolate maker, died 1784. Mother:
continued business w/ Pauline’s help
 Working class or sans-culotte; could read & write
 Radical republican activist & orator; frequented
visitors’ galleries of Paris Commune, Jacobin Club, &
National Convention
 Founder & president of Société des RépubliancsRévolutionnaires
 Arrested & interrogated after 1791 Champs de Mars
Massacre; arrested & imprisoned w/ husband from
April to August 1794; released after Robespierre’s
death & faded into obscurity
Husband
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Théophile Leclerc,
enragé leader
Associates
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Claire Rose Lacombe, radical revolution
Théophile Leclerc, enragé leader
Jacques Roux, enragé leader
Olympe de Gouges, revolutionary feminist
 Concepts, names, events, and terms in practice
questions frequently relate to contest questions.
 Correct answers and distractors in practice
questions frequently relate to contest questions.
 Practice and contest questions contain maps and
pictures.
 Practice and contest questions contain quotations
by and about key individuals on the study guide.
 Invitational and area contest questions should be
studied in preparation for subsequent contests.
 Outline
 Reading Guide
 Study Guide
Important Individuals
Important Events & Issues
Important Terms
French Words & Phrases
 Power Point Presentation
Content
Chronology
Context
Cause & Consequence
Contrast & Comparison
Continuity & Change
Connections
Consciousness
The elements of history.
Includes individuals,
groups, events,
movements, beliefs,
folkways, conditions,
technologies, diseases,
geography, and more.
Overwhelming amount
of content requires
construction of
narratives based on
themes, locations,
topics, and eras.
Which one of the following French philosophes,
celebrated by some as the greatest writer of the
18th Century, popularized the new scientific way of
looking at the world and boldly questioned the
intimate connection between the French monarchy
and the Roman Catholic Church?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Voltaire
Note that many of the questions contain
multiple clues. This question has four clues.
• French philosophe
• greatest writer of the 18th Century
• popularized new scientific way of looking
at world
• questioned connection between French
monarchy and Roman Catholic Church
Manon Roland’s husband Jean-Marie Roland and
her one romantic love Francois Buzot were the
most important men in her short life. Which
man committed suicide immediately upon
learning of her execution?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Francois Buzot
Jean-Marie Roland
Both men
Neither man
In 1789, in which of the circled areas did
Napoleon and his French forces win a decisive
land victory on July 21 and experience a
disastrous naval defeat on August 1.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Area A
Area B
Area C
Area D
History’s basic
organizational tool.
Absolutely essential for
critical analysis of
change and continuity
over time as well as
causes and
consequences.
Which of the following statements most accurately
describes Germaine de Stael’s life in exile after she fled
Paris in 1792 and before she returned in 1795?
A. She abandoned her husband and began a 15-year
affair with the brilliant but unstable Benjamin
Constant
B. She accepted a loveless reconciliation of
convenience with her husband near her father’s
home in Switzerland
C. Beginning life anew with great hope, she joined her
lover Louis Narbonne and his “congenial group of
émigrés” in England
D. She funded efforts by her friends in France to
overthrow the French Republic and reestablish the
monarchy
Georges Danton, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette,
Maximilien Robespierre, and Manon Roland were all
condemned to death by revolutionary bodies and each
was guillotined during the French Revolution. What
was the chronological order of their deaths?
A. Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Robespierre, Roland,
Danton
B. Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Roland, Danton,
Robespierre
C. Louis XVI, Roland, Danton, Marie Antoinette,
Robespierre
D. Roland, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre,
Danton
The environments in
which specific events
take place or groups
and individuals act.
Provides the “bigger
picture” and includes
factors such as politics,
economics, religion,
geography, and social
class.
Sylvia Neely writes that religious devotion
seemed to be waning in pre-revolutionary
France but she describes the prevailing public
mood with which of the following phrases?
A.
B.
C.
D.
More anti-Catholic than anti-Christian
More anti-clerical than anti-Catholic
More anti-Christian than anti-religion
More anti-religion than anti-spiritualism
Why, when Théresia de Fonténay first met
Jean-Lambert Tallion in January of 1791, was
there no possibility of them forming a
relationship?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Class differences
Her marital status
Political differences
Religious differences
Often viewed as
fundamental task of
history. Based upon of
knowledge of content
and context and
historical perspective.
Subject to constant
revision.
In late February of 1793, the sans-culotte women
of the Parisian streets protested against the rising
cost of necessities as people began to die of
starvation. Which of the following was a direct
response to their demands?
A. An angry mob of hungry women murdered
Jean-Paul Marat
B. The Convention instituted the Revolutionary
Tribunal with extraordinary powers
C. The Girondins called for price controls and a
special tax on the wealthy
D. The Jacobins allowed the women to use their
meeting rooms
Which one of the following comments
best represents public reaction to
this 1783 portrait of Marie Antoinette
wearing a chemise de la reine?
A. Her tastes were modern and encouraged a
more relax and less formal lifestyle.
B. She had no respect for French traditions and
was terribly immodest.
C. She lacked sophistication and knew little about
fashion.
D. She was arrogantly flaunting the extravagance
of the royal court at Versailles.
Identifying the
similarities and
differences between
two or more historical
events, individuals,
groups, movements,
eras, etc.
Three of the following statements accurately
describe the new revolutionary lifestyle of Paris
that replaced the frivolous, extravagant life of the
Ancien Régime by 1793. Which of the following
statements is false?
A. Courtesy was seen as absurd and unpatriotic
B. Men went unwashed and unshaven
C. Theatres featured plays demonizing royalty,
aristocrats, and priests
D. Women wore bright red, white, and blue
patriotic colors
When compared to the other governments of the
First French Republic, which one of the following
phrases most accurately describes the government
of the Directory established by the Constitution of
the Year III (1795)?
A. Accomplished a great deal and the most longlasting of the governments
B. Achieved few domestic or foreign successes
while beset with widespread political violence
C. Much less likely to use military force against
street mobs in order to maintain order
D. Plagued by much more corruption and political
intrigue
Identify historical
innovations, either
evolutionary or
revolutionary, as well as
the endurance of
historical patterns and
unsettled issues.
The French Revolution, according to the modern
historian Dorinda Outram, succeeded perfectly in
carrying out its “hidden agenda.” What does she
identify as that hidden agenda that was shared by
various revolutionaries as different as Maximilien
Robéspiere, Antoine Saint-Just, Paul Barras, and
Napoléon Bonaparte?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The accumulation of great personal wealth
The annihilation of the aristocracy
The exclusion of women from public life
The extermination of religion
Three of the following phrases accurately
describe the impact of Napoleon Bonaparte’s
policies during his time as consul and emperor.
Which statement is false?
A. Created a military dictatorship
B. Discontinued universal male suffrage,
elections, and plebiscites
C. Sacrificed liberty while emphasizing
stability and foreign empire
D. Spread revolutionary concepts across much
of Europe
Identify various forms
of interaction (trade,
migration, conflict)
between regions and
peoples and examine
the local, regional, and
global impact of such
interactions.
By 1791, the French Revolution’s principles of
liberty, equality, and fraternity had inspired a
violent rebellion by African slaves on which
one of the following Caribbean Islands?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cuba
Hispaniola
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
Note that answers are
usually listed in
alphabetical or
chronological order.
After Louis XVI put Turgot in charge of public finances
in 1774, the noted economist and reformer created
controversies by advocating all of the following
policies. Though the king feared that Turgot was
infringing on royal authority, he finally dismissed him
and dismantled his reformers after Turgot urged the
king to do which one of the following?
A. Allow the free trade of grain
B. Break up the craft guilds of Paris
C. Refrain from intervening in the American
Revolution
D. Replace forced peasant labor on roads with a tax on
all landowners
Perspectives or points
of view that precondition groups’ or
individuals’ responses
to events and
situations. Based on
experiences and
relationships.
During the Reign of Terror, one of the following four
radicals eliminated two of the other men. Identify
this revolutionary who piously declared that “the
basis of popular government in time of revolution is
both virtue and terror: virtue without which terror is
murderous, terror without which virtue is
powerless.”
A. George Danton
C. Jean-Paul Marat
B. Jacques-Réne Hébert D. Maximilien Robespierre
In August of 1792, when the somber and timid
Jean-Marie Roland resumed his position as Minister
of the Interior, the new Minister of Justice was a
flamboyant womanizer and popular revolutionary
hero. Who was this man who, according to Lucy
Moore, Manon Roland treated with” a shameful
mixture of arrogance and disdain” and misjudged
with the most serious and tragic of consequences?
A. Françoise Buzot
B. Georges Danton
C. Jean-Paul Marat
D. Théophile Leclerc
In a revolution, as in a
novel, the most difficult
part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville
By Eugène Delacroix commemorating
the July Revolution of 1830, which
toppled King Charles X of France.
REVOLUTION: Political movement
which gets many people´s hopes up,
let´s even more people down, makes
almost everybody uncomfortable, and a
few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely
held in high regard.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine fiction writer, 2001
The most heroic word in all
languages is REVOLUTION.
Eugene V. Debs
American Socialist, 1907
Tunisia
Romania
Mexico
South Africa
China
Russia
Germany
Ukraine