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Why did Louis XIV build Versailles outside the city limits of Paris? |
to get away from his subjects |
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How old was Louis XIV when he married? |
15 |
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Why did Louis and Marie marry? |
to form an alliance between France(Louis) and Austria(Marie) |
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Where did Louis and Marie marry? |
versailles |
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Is Marie Antoinette interested in political affairs? |
no |
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What was life like outside of the gates of Versailles? |
the people were deprived of food, hungry, and angry |
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France was broken into how many classes? |
3 |
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What philosophical movement is sweeping through Europe/France during this time? |
literature; knowledge; enlightenment |
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Where do the people meet to discuss these new ideas? |
saloon |
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Who did Louis XIV support in the war against Great Britain? |
america |
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What caused France to go bankrupt? |
America had put France in a debt |
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What did Marie like to do in her spare time? |
gossip, gamble, watch theatre |
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What was Marie’s nickname? |
madame deficit |
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What food was at the heart of the French diet? |
bread |
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What were some of the problems occurring in France between 1788 and 1798? |
food shortages |
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The cost of what product sky rockets under Louis’s miss management of the economy? |
flour |
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Louis is advised by Jacques Necker to call a meeting of what organization? |
estates general |
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What % did the first two estates make up? |
3% |
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What % did the third estate make up? |
97% |
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Robespierre represents members of which estate? |
third |
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What happens on the handball court on June 20th? |
the deputies find out they are being silenced |
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What is the name of the oath they take at this location? |
tennis court oath |
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What does the third estate rename themselves? |
national assembly |
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Where do the people go for gunpowder? |
the bastille |
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On July 14, what colors mark the flag of Paris? |
red, white, and blue |
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What do the colors red and blue represent on the flag of Paris? |
paris |
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What does the color white represent on the flag of Paris? |
house of bourbon |
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What revolutionary tradition is born out of the fall of the Bastille? |
severed head parading on a pike |
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What do the people do to the Bastile? |
tear it apart brick by brick |
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What does the Declaration of the Rights declare? |
the class distinction is abolished all men are equal |
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What was Jean-Paul Marat’s role in the revolution? |
he printed a newspaper that provoked new ideas |
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Which group gets so angry that they march to Versailles? |
women; fish ladies |
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Does Marie actually say, "Let them eat cake."? |
no |
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What does the angry crowd at Versailles want from the king and queen? |
they want the king and queen to move to Paris |
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June 21st, 1791 the king and queen try to do what during the cover of darkness? |
disguise themselves as servants and escape |
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What is the "national razor"? |
guillotine |
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Does Robespierre want to go to war with Austria? |
no, he thinks the enemy will win and destroy the revolution |
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What two nations begin war and invasion of France? |
prussia and austria |
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How can the birth of the Republic begin? |
with Louis’s death |
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What is the symbol of the san-colottes? |
refused to wear knee-pants |
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The National Assembly becomes known as the…? |
convention |
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Who comes forward to help rally the French against the Austrians and Prussians? |
George Danton |
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What are the September Massacres? |
murder of all prisoners (total of 1600 killed) |
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What do the Jacobins want to do to the king? |
kill him |
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What do the Girondin want to do to the king? |
spare his life |
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What does Charlotte Corday do? |
she kills Marat |
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What does Marat become? |
a legend |
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What is Marie Antoinette’s sentence? |
death |
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What is "the terror"? |
a period of violent repression of anyone who is even suspected of thinking the wrong way about the revolution |
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What is the "Committee of Public Safety"? |
12 men ruled France as a collective dictatorship |
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What is Robespierre’s paradox? |
he was against the death penalty, but caused so many to die |
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What do the people decide is the "root" of the problem? |
priests religion |
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Who is the new saint of France? |
marat |
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What brilliant young commander is leading France to victory on the battlefields? |
Napoleon Boneparte |
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Robespierre believes that terror can help create what? |
virtue |
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What happens to the Dantonists? |
they are rounded up and sentenced to death |
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The tempo of executions increase to 800 or more per month in Paris alone during this new phase called the…? |
great terror |
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What two events lead to the demise of Robespierre? |
the festival of the supreme being a speech of threats |
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What is the irony of Robespierre’s injury? |
he couldn’t speak to defend himself |
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Who sheds the last blood of the terror? |
robespierre |
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Who becomes the leader of France after Robespierre? |
napoleon boneparte |
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