French Revolution

An assembly of representatives from all three states

• Bastille

• National Assembly

• Third Estate

• Estates General

According to the picture above, what happened on July 14th, Bastille Day in France?

• Robespierre was executed by guillotine.

• French women marched all the way to Versailles to protest for bread.

• A mob stormed a prison starting the French Revolution.

Which of the following reasons was why the guillotine was used during French Revolution executions?

• Was the most painful form of execution

• They could execute many people in a short amount of time

• A humane way of execution

The King of France during the French Revolution. He was the King who was beheaded via the Guillotine. 

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Louis XVI

• Estates General

• Bastille

Maximillian Robespierre and the Jacobins are best known for

• Instituting the Reign of Terror

• Protecting freedom of religion

• Supporting the reign of King Louis XVI

Why did the leaders French Revolution execute so many people during the reign of terror?

• They thought they were protecting the revolution by persecuting anyone who spoke against them

• They liked using the guillotine

• They thought the peasants were trying to become kings and queens

• They thought it would stop foreign invaders

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

• Pledge of Allies

• The France Pledge

• Tennis Court Oath

• The Oath of Continuance

A Paris prison that housed weapons used in the revolution

• Third Estate

• Estates General

• _Bastille

• National Assembly

Belief in the ideas of _______________________________and discontent within the Third Estate were causes of the French Revolution.

• Renaissance

• Spanish Inquisition

• Enlightenment

• Catholic Reformation

The Jacobin leader who set out to build a “republic of virtue”, and was later beheaded. Lead the Reign of Terror

• King Henry

• Louis X

• Louis XVI

• Maximilien Robespierre