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The French Revolution viewing guide Part 1

1. What did the people believe they could change?
2. What did the French Revolution bring to France?
3. What is Versailles?
4. Who did Louis XVI marry?
5. What did their marriage represent?
6. What left the French people deprived and hungry?
7. What drained the French economy?
8. What was happening to the French population?
9. Was Louis XVI ready to be king?
10. What age was going on?
11. Where was the philosophical center of the world?
12. How did people get information in the Old Regime?
13. What threatened the aristocratic way of life?
14. Where could Enlightened ideals be seen in practice?
15. What did America do to France?

16. What did Marie Antoinette obsess over?

17. What was Maries nickname?
18. What was there a shortage of?
19. Who charged that Louis XVI lived a life of excess?
20. What does Jacque Necker say about the government and bread?
21. How much of the population was the Third Estate?
22. What could the nobles and clergy do?
23. Who became leader of the Third Estate?
24. What did the Third Estate do at the Tennis Court?
25. Where was the gunpowder?
26. What was the Bastille a symbol of?
27. What did the people do when Necker was fired?
28. What was the answer when the king asked, Is this a rebellion?

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The French Revolution viewing guide Part 2

1. What did the Bastille being torn down represent?
2. What was abolished under the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
3. What did the people demand?
4. What did Robespierre demand?
5. What did the angry mob at Versailles demand?
6. What did the mob want?
7. What did the mob take?
8. When Louis was forced to Paris, who held power?
9. Why was France described as a constitutional monarchy?
10. Where did Louis try to escape to?
11. What did the inventor of the guillotine think about it?
12. Who did France declare war on?
13. When did the birth of the Republic begin?
14. How were political prisoners dealt with?
15. What was Louis XVI found guilty of?
16. What was his sentence?

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The French Revolution viewing guide Part 3

1. What does Marat call for?
2. What happened to Marat?
3. What was Marie accused of?
4. What was Maries sentence?
5. Who attacked France?
6. What was the period of repression called?
7. What group ruled France as a dictatorship?
8. What did some say was the root of Frances problems?
9. Why would a 10 day calendar hurt religion?
10. What did Robespierre associate terror with?
11. How many were being executed each month?
12. What cult did Robespierre create?
13. What was the only thing that could end the terror?
14. Who got power 5 years after Robespierre?
15. What does the French Revolution stand for?