Semester 1 Exam Review Part 2

: (1755-1793) frivolous ways (spending), conduct, and various scandals helped discredit the monarchy. She told her husband, Louis XVI, to resist reform demands by the National Assembly. Like, Louis, she was branded a traitor and executed. 

• Marie Antoinette

• Olympe de Gouge

• Sybil Luddington

• Charlotte Corday

 

: famous oath made on a tennis court by the Third Estate in pre-revolutionary France. 

• Tennis Court Oath

• Tennis Court Pact

• Tennis Court Alegations

• Wimbledon Oath

: old order system of government in pre-revolutionary France. 

• Ancient Regime

• Ancien régime

• Ancien Regiment

• Ancient Regard

:(1745?-1793), author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women, railed against the treatment of women in France, addressing her concerns directly to Marie Antoinette. 

• Olympe de Gouges

• Jacques Necker

• Louis XVI

• Charlotte Corday

: notebooks used in pre-revolutionary France to record grievances. 

• Cahiers

• Cashiers

• Cashious

• Gabelle

: ( 1757- 1834), a French noble, fought alongside the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Upon his return to France, led the call for reform & in 1789, presented a draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to the National Assembly. He was hated by some for his moderate stance, and fled to Austria, but he later returned. 

• Marquis de LaFayette

• Marquis de LaNay

• Jacques Necker

• Thomas Jefferson

What was the significance of the Tennis Court Oath during the French Revolution?

• It established the National Assembly

• It led to the execution of Marie Antoinette

• It marked the end of the monarchy

• It initiated the Reign of Terror

: the legislative body made up of the representatives of the 3 estates in pre-revolutionary France. 

• Estates- General

• The First Continental Congress

• Cordeliers Club

• Jacobins

: a group or clique within a larger group that has different ideas & opinions than the rest of the group. 

• Faction

• Fraction

• Fiction

• Fision

: (1732-1804) was director of the French treasury before the revolution, attempted to reform the country's finances, although he also tried to finance France's participation in the American Revolution through heavy borrowing, while trying to conceal the country's huge deficit. Later, his calls for reform were thwarted by Louis XVI. 

• Jacques Necker

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Jean-Paul Marat