Sem 1 Final: Chapter 12 Review

Timeline: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

Lowest level of French society before the French Revolution; contained the middle class, artisans, and peasants.

Which of these are causes of the French Revolution?

Timeline: Germany is United

Second highest level of French society before the French Revolution; contained the aristocracy.

Political and financial collapse occurred during her reign; wife of Louis XVI.

Intense devotion and loyalty to one’s own people and country.

Took advantage of the chaos in France and used his power to take control of the government.

Which of these are causes of the French Revolution?

Document signed by the national assembly in 1789; demanded an end to abuses advocated enlightenment ideals

The upper tier of the French social ladder which included archbishops and bishops.

A period of mass executions during the French Revolution.

Timeline: Parisian Mob storms the Bastille

French ruler during the political/financial collapse that lead to the French Revolution; husband of Marie Antionette.

Members of the third estate who met at the royal tennis courts and signed the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Which of these are causes of the French Revolution?

An assembly composed of representatives of the three estates, the only political body in France with authority to tax

Site of the battle in which the armies of Prussia and Britain defeated Napoleon and his forces.