TES Reign of Terror practice Quiz

The period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed.

• Emigres

• Bastille

• The Terror

• Sans-Culottes

A group of upper middle-class people, such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, and factory owners. People who belonged to this group were usually well-educated and believed strongly in Enlightenment ideas.

• Bourgeoisie

• Sans-Culottes

• Old Regime

• Tennis Court Oath

A mob of citizens stormed this Paris prison in search of arms and gunpowder. The fall of this prison became a great symbolic act of revolution to the French people.

• Robespierre

• Versaille

• Louis XVI

• Bastille

A person who leaves their native country for political reasons, like nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution.

• Emigres

• Tennis Court Oath

• Robespierre

• Bastille

Reflecting the influence of the American Declaration of Independence, the National Assembly adopted this statement of revolutionary ideas, declaring, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Directory

A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.

• Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Louis XVI

• Directory

The social and political system that existed in France before the French Revolution.

• New Regime

• Louis XVI

• Old Order

• Old Regime

In the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian working class and urban wage-earners who wanted greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end of food shortages.

• Old Regime

• Sans-Culottes

• New Guard

• Le petan

How did Robespierre use terror to control France?

• Robespierre’s chief goal was to protect the Revolution from its enemies by executing them at a vicious rate

• Robespierre tried to prevent nobles from leaving France by capturing them at the border

• Robespierre tried to manipulate the Directory to do his bidding

• Robespierre tried to scare French citizens into revolution by provoking wars with neighboring European countries

What events led to the capture of the King and Queen at Versailles?

• A mob of women rioted over the rising prices of bread

• Members of the Third Estate were locked out of their meeting room

• A wave of senseless panic spread through the French countryside

• The Enlightenment spread new views of power and authority