The French Revolution

What was the issue with the Estates-General voting structure?

• the First and Second Estates could always outvote the Third Estate

• the Third Estate wanted more members added

• the king got to cast the deciding vote

• the First and Second Estates were upset by the voting by members

Why did the people of Paris attack the Bastille?

• they wanted to bring the royal family back to Paris

• they were afraid the nobles would attack

• they wanted to free the political prisoners

• they were looking for gunpowder to protect themselves from the king's army

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaimed

• equal rights for all citizens

• an end to the monarchy and the abolishing of the National Assembly

• equal rights for all men, but no political rights for women

• an end to the national police force

Why did the women of Paris march to Versailles?

• they wanted to protest their lack of equal political rights

• they hated Queen Marie-Antoinette an they gonna ktb

• they wanted to protect the king from the sans-culottes

• they were upset by the lack and price of bread

What happened to King Louis XVI?

• he successfully flees France

• he joins with the revolutionaries and becomes a constitutional monarch

• he is restored to full power

• he is beheaded by the guillotine

What was the purpose of the Reign of Terror?

• to protect France from foreign invasions

• to remove the king from power

• to install Napoleon as emperor

• to eliminate enemies of the revolution

How did Napoleon get into power?

• he was voted into power by the people

• he was a cousin to the beheaded Louis XVI

• the Pope chose Napoleon to be the next ruler of France

• he committed a coup d'etat against the Directory

One of the major reasons that Napoleon's Grand Empire collapsed was due to...

• the resentment of the clergy and the nobles

• Napoleon's greed and laziness within his bureaucracy

• France's weak economy and the drain of too many wars

• not being able to invade or defeat Great Britain

The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by

• making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack to draw Napoleon out of Russia

• splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides

• waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter

• retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside

What was the basic goal of the Congress of Vienna?

• to make sure that the new boundaries that Napoleon made were kept in place

• to convince Britain to adopt the principle of intervention

• to remove Napoleon from power

• to restore Europe to how it was prior to Napoleon and the French Revolution