The French Revolution and Napoleon 1789 - 1815

Paris Commune members, many of whom were called ____________, considered themselves ordinary patriots.

• priests
• sans-culottes
• aristocrats
• bureaucrats

One of three classes into which French society was divided before the revolution is referred to as a/an

• taille
• estate
• faction
• assembly

A/an _______________ is a sudden overthrow of the government.

• election
• rebellion
• coup d' etat
• crowning

In 1799 Napoleon headed a new government called the _________________.

• Consulate
• Reign of Terror
• Glorious Revolution
• Republic of Virtue

Who called a meeting of the Estates General in 1789?

• Members of the First Estate
• Members of the Third Estate
• King Louis XVI
• Olympe de Gouges

Which right did the Third Estate claim in the National Assembly? 

• to have freedom of religion
• to have access to the Louvre
• to have their votes count as much as the other Estates
• To form their own militia 

The Constitution of 1791 set up which form of government?

• A limited monarchy
• An absolute monarchy
• A democracy
• A republic

What did the European nations that opposed the revolution threaten to do?

• Execute Louis XVI
• Form a Republic of Virtue
• Take away France's territories
• Invade France

Thousands of people who opposed the government were executed when ________________ was in power.

• Louis XVI
• the Estates-General
• the Committee of Public Safety
• Napoleon

What event happened at the end of the Reign of Terror?

• The execution of King Louis XVI
• The creation of the Committee of Public Safety
• The execution of Maximilien Robespierre
• Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory