Chp. 23 Review

1. ​ After the storming of the Bastille, wild rumors circulated that the nobles in France were hiring outlaws to terrorize the peasants.  This wave of senseless panic was called the ______ _______.

​ (a)   - A forcible closing of ports

1. ​ (b)   - burning grain fields and slaughtering live-stock so as to leave nothing for your enemy to eat.

2. ​ (c)   - The group name that the 3rd Estates took for themselves in order to pass laws in the name of the French people.

3. ​ (d)   - Under this class system the people of France were divided into 3 large social classes.

• Blockade
• Scorched Earth Policy
• National Assembly
• Old Regime

​ (a)   - The name of the Spanish peasant fighters that fought against the French.

1. ​ (b)   - This was the term for the social classes in France.

2. ​ (c)   - When Napoleon took power in France, he wrote this comprehensive system of laws.

3. ​ (d)   - This was a meeting in France between members from all three estates.

4. ​ (e)   - The term for a sudden seizure of power or a “blow to the state”

• Guerrillas
• Estates
• Napoleonic Code
• Estates General
• Coup d'etat

1. In the 1770s the social and political system of France was called the ​ (a)   .  Under this systems the people of France were divided into ​ (b)   social classes or ​ (c)   .

• Old Regime
• 3
• estates
• New Order
• Revolutionary Era
• Monarchy Rule
• Democratic Society
• 5

1. The top 2 estates under the Old Regime in France were privileged and could hold high offices and didn’t have to pay ________.

The members of the clergy and the nobles scorned _________________ ideas and radical notions that threatened their status and power and privileged persons.

1. The third estate was made up of France’s workers, peasants and the __________________ which was the middle class  people like bankers, merchants and artisans. 

Many educated members of the bourgeoisie knew about the writings of great enlightenment philosophers like John ​ (a)   , Baron de ​ (b)   , and Jean-Jacques ​ (c)   . ​

• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau

1. The Bourgeoisie also had heard about the ____________________ colonists that just rebelled against the British king.

1. By the 1780s, the heavy burden of ​ (a)   made it almost impossible to have a profitable business in France.   To make matters worse, severe ​ (b)   caused widespread crop failures resulting in a shortage of ​ (c)   . 

• taxes
• weather
• grain
• potatoes
• insects
• war