French Revolution Trading Cards
You have been hired by the Crossroads Trading Card Company, and your job is to create a set of trading
cards for the figures and events of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era.
Your task:
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Make a list of 10 people or events of the French Revolution. Choose from the list below.
For each person or event you must include the ‘stats’ listed below.
Make a rough draft of all the information required for each person or event.
Once your information is complete, you must edit your work for spelling, grammar and proper
punctuation.
5) Once your rough drafts have been edited, ask your teacher to initial them so that you may begin
your good copy.
6) All good copies must be done on plain white paper with a hand drawn picture on one side and
statistical information on the back.
7) Once you are done with your cards, you must create a case for your cards.
Stats:
a) For people: include their interests and contributions to the French Revolution
b) For events: clearly demonstrate main contributions to the French Revolution
c) A+ = the various ideas, people, and events are clearly tied together
The People/Events to Choose From:
CHOOSE 10
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Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Madame Roland
Marie Antoinette
Rousseau
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Estates General
Robespierre
Bread Riots
Waterloo
Storming of the Bastille
Napoleon Bonaparte
Guillotine
Sans Culottes
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Jacobins
Girondists
Reign of Terror
Tennis Court Oath
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen
Versailles – the Women’s March
National Guard
100 days
Danton
Flight to Varennes
Three Estates
Revolutionary Committees