French Revolution Radical Phase

The political faction who feared the sans-culottes and wanted to avoid a trial for the king

• Mountain

• Girondins

• Jacobins

What was the job of the Committee of Public Safety?

• To ensure the nobility is protected 
• To save the Revolution
• To protect the public from the revolutionaries
• To establish law and order for the nobles

What is the Directory?

• A committee created by nobles to hunt revolutionaries 
• A directorate designed to draft a constitution
• It replaced the National Convention and contained five men and a legislature elected by the people
• It was created to hunt for traitors in the Revolutionary Army

Which of the following was NOT a radical step that the National Convention took?

• They established a republic
• They had the king beheaded
• They made Napoleon president
• They gave power to the Committee of Public Safety

The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute

• Austrian prisoners

• The sans-culottes and other member of the Paris Commune

• Counter-revolutionaries and traitors

• Robespierre's followers

During which phase of the French Revolution did the Reign of Terror occur?

• National Assembly (1789-1791)
• Legislative Assembly (1791-1792)
• National Convention (1792-1795)
• Directory (1795-1799)

What is the name of the general who emerges as a strong leader to lead France into its next phase of revolution in 1795?

• Napoleon

• Hannibal

• Robespierre

• Sieyes

What is the name of the individual who oversaw the Reign of Terror. He was eventually named a traitor himself and guillotined.

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Olympe de Gouge

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What did Napoleon do in 1804 after winning major Military Battles with the full support of the French people?

• Married his third Wife
• Cut all ties with the Roman Catholic Church
• Crowned himself Emperor of France
• Invaded Russia

After Napoleon escaped from Elba Island and regained control of his armies and rallied his allies, where was he finally defeated for the last time?

• Madrid, Spain
• Waterloo, Belgium
• Moscow, Russia
• Paris France