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1. What radical step does the National Assembly take on August 4, 1789?

2. Which enlightened writer is telling people to dump the old ways of thinking especially regarding religion?

3. When the king shuts down the national parliament, where do they meet instead?

4. What demand did the members of the famous Womens' March on Versailles make on the king and queen?

5. Who leads the Committee of Public Safety which ends up executing thousands of people?

6. Why does France invade Austria?

7. The French economic system under the ancien régime sucked because the ____classes never paid any real taxes.

8. Which 'wing' or political faction of the revolutionary government wanted more radical reforms including turning France into a republic?

9. How did the revolution radically change how time was measured?

10. What is the name of the French parliament under the ancien régime?

11. What three rights are supposedly guaranteed (but are actually not) under the new government?

12. King Louis XVI is married to ______ an Austrian princess

13. In 1799, France's greatest war hero was given what new grand title?

14. Why is the guillotine as seen as something that somehow promoted equality?

15. What type of people make up each of the three Estates?

16. Although the French Revolution was a mess, but it's ___changed human history.

17. Why does the Assembly vote to execute Louis?

18. Why was there widespread hunger in France?

19. France was able to defeat England, Prussia and Austria because of which great general?

20. When the king tries to clamp down on food riots, what prison do the mobs in Paris attack?

21. What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?

22. France had several kings after the revolution, but these kings operated under a ________________________ monarchy system, which means that Parliament had most of the power (like in England).

23. Ironically, France went from an ________________________ style of government under the king, to a democracy during the Revolution, and right back again to the same style of government it had before the Revolution.

24. What foundational document lays out the new enlightened rights of every male citizen?

25. Why was France so deep in debt?

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