Reign of Terror

Which form of government has no king?

• Constitutional monarchy

• Absolute monarchy

• Republic

Who is shown beheaded in this painting?

• King Louis XVI

• Queen Marie Antoinette

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Napoleon Bonaparte

Faced with peasant rebellion & foreign invasion, the Nat'l Convention gave broad powers to a special committee of 12 called the...

• Committee of Public Safety

• National Assembly

• Jacobin Club

• Dechristianization

The Committee of Public Safety adopted policies known as the ___________, which led to the deaths of 40,000 French people.

• Reign of Terror

• League of Nations

• Constitutional Convention

• National Convention

What method was the most often used means of execution during the Reign of Terror in France?

• Guillotine

• Hanging

• Electric chair

• Firing squad

What label did Robespierre use for the new social order he aimed to create through the Reign of Terror?

• The Republic of Virtue

• The Cathedral of Notre Dame

• The Committee of Public Safety

• The Temple of Reason

What country is highlighted on this map?

• England

• France

• Germany

• Canada

T/F: Only members of the clergy & nobility were killed during the Reign of Terror.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What action by King Louis XVI in June 1791 caused the National Convention to declare him a traitor & eventually condemn him to death?

• King Louis tried to flee France & reverse the Revolution.

• King Louis invented a new execution machine - the guillotine.

• King Louis decreed that each Estate would have one vote.

• King Louis ordered his guards to fire on the crowds.

True or False: Robespierre was the final victim of the violence he had created.

• True

• False