French Revolution Review

Point in the French Revolution where Maximilien Robespierre was in power sending thousands to the guillotine.

• Women's March on Versailles

• Reign of Terror

• Napoleonic Wars

• The Bastille

Meeting place for revolutionaries to create a constitution after being locked out of Versailles.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Congress of Vienna

A series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon and various alliances of European nations in attempts to unify Europe.

• One of Napoleon's main military goals

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Jacobins

• Napoleonic Wars

A series of meetings after the downfall of Napoleon in order to establish a peaceful Europe.

• Treaty of Versailles
• Berlin Conference
• Congress of Vienna
• Yalta Conference

French society was broken up into 3 Estates: 1st Estate (clergy); 2nd Estate (nobility); 3rd Estate (commoners)

• 1st Estate (farmers)
• 2nd Estate (merchants)
• 3rd Estate (royalty)
• Estate System

French document that included many Enlightenment ideas such as individual liberties and democracy.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• Decleratios of Independance

• Magna Carta
• Treaty of Versailles

New invention used during the Revolution to execute those who were "against" the Revolution.

• guillotine
• electric chair
• hanging
• firing squad

An armory located in Paris that was stormed by revolutionaries kicking off the French Revolution

• Eiffel Tower
• Louvre Museum
• Notre Dame Cathedral
• Bastille

Group of Radical Revolutionaries - The most radical political faction of the French Revolution who ruled France during the Reign of Terror.

• Socialists
• Anarchists
• Jacobins
• Monarchists

a sudden overthrow of the government

• election
• revolution
• peace
• Coup d'etat