The Great Fear and August Decrees

3. What conspiracy theory said that the famine was orchestrated by the nobility to assert control?
5. What historian proposed the possible causes of the Great Fear in their seminal work "The Great Fear of 1789"?
8. Feudalism was a foundational element of what traditional political system?
11. What was the name of the club where the idea to abolish feudalism originated?
12. An epidemic of what rye-fungus may have contributed to the hysteria of the Great Fear as well as the Salem witch trials of 1692?
16. Who did the National Assembly appoint as Commander of the National Guard?
18. Which notable royal left the country in the wake of the storming of the Bastille?
20. What infamous radical group did the Breton club eventually form?
21. What did peasants ransack and torch during their revolt as a symbol of feudalism?
22. What church payments were abolished by the August decrees?

1. What was the French term for the wave of panic that swept the countryside in late July and early August 1789?
2. Who was the king's youngest brother who fled Versailles, sparking fears of a foreign invasion?
4. Who was rumored to be planning to poison the king and replace him with the king's brother?
6. What were the August Decrees aimed to abolish?
7. The August Decrees embodied ideals of liberty, equality and what?
9. To which French royal dynasty did Louis XVI belong?
10. To which Austrian royal dynasty did Marie Antoinette belong?
13. An eruption of the Laki volcano in what country contributed to reduced harvests in 1785?
14. What was the nickname for the salt tax collectors contracted by the French government?
15. Which major bread riot occurred in France in 1775?
17. What were the peasants reclaiming when they invaded seigneurial estates during the revolt?
19. What percentage of their income were the poorest spending solely on bread by 1789?