Reign of Terror

The ___ was a committee who sought to defend France from foreign and domestic threats

• National Assembly
• Jacobins
• Committee of Public Safety
• Republic of Virtue

The Reign of Terror lasted from ________ to _________.

• 1793 to 1794
• 1792 to 1799
• 1792 to 1794
• 1793 to 1799

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
• Thomas Jefferson
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What had to happen in order for you to be convicted and executed during the Reign of Terror?

• trial by a jury of your peers
• evidence and witnesses presented to prove your innocence or guilt
• the death penalty had already been abolished
• someone simply had to say that you were guilty of anti-revolutionary acts

What event marked the end of the Reign of Terror?

• The execution of Marie Antoinette
• The execution of Maximilien Robespierre
• The execution of King Louis XVI
• The execution of Jean Paul Marat

What execution method was most popular during the Reign of Terror?

• guillotine
• hanging
• brazen bull
• stoning to death

The National Convention declared France a ___________ following the execution of the king.

• Absolute monarchy
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Republic
• Dictatorchip

Which event is considered the beginning of the French Revolution?

• Napoleon's Coup d'etat
• The formation of the Committee of Public Safety
• Storming of the Bastille
• The Reign of Terror

What is the name of the document passed by the National Assembly?

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens
• US Constituion
• Tennis Court Oath
• English Bill of Rights

What were most of the victims of the Terror guilty of?

• they supported the radical Jacobin government
• they wrote the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
• they were labeled "enemies" of the Revolution
• they didn't support King Louis XVI