The French Revolution

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Group 2 by:

Dylan, Ashley, Sophie,Yael,and Sean,

The French Revolution (Start/Beginning)

The French Revolution started by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the
American Revolution. It began in 1789 and lasted through 1799. During this time,
Austria, Prussia, and Russia were all involved.

The French Revolution

​The French Revolution started by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. It began in 1789 and lasted through 1799. During this time, Austria, Prussia, and Russia were all involved. 

Essential Question: What would've happened if the king met with the citizens needs before? What would the people have done if they wouldn't have got what they wanted?

Multiple Choice

What countries were involved in the start?

• France, Great Britain, and Russia.

• Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

• Australia, Prussia, and Russia.

• Greece, Iraq, and Prussia.

Multiple Choice

How Long Did The Revolution Last?

• 1789-1799

• 1787-1789

• 2

• 1800s

1.Why did the revolution spread from the National assembly to the common people?

●•The Revolution, instigated by the nobility, and set in motion by the bourgeoisie, spread to common people.

2. Why did mobs storm at Bastille?

●They were searching for weapons.

Part two. What did they do to the guards?

●They were all killed and no guard was left alive.

Part 3. How many prisoners were free?

●Seven (7)

3. What was “The Great Fear”? What was the result?

●The great fear was when “Peasants burned their nobles' chateaux and destroyed documents which contained
their feudal obligations.” They were going crazy and destroying everything.

●The result was • The National Assembly responded to the Great Fear. On the Night of

●August 4, 1789, one by one members of the nobility and clergy rose to

●give up:

●– Feudal dues

●– Serfdom

●– The tithe

●– Hunting and fishing rights

●– Personal privileges.

Multiple Choice

Why did the revolution spread from the national assembly to the common people?

• because they had a bad president

• The Revolution instigated the nobility

• because it wanted too

• The common people had enough money to finance it

Multiple Choice

How many prisoners were freed?

• 5

• 3

• 10

• 7

Questions 4-6 French Revolution.

4. What was demanded by the woman who marched on Versailles? How did the king respond?

●They complained over the high pri

●ce and scant availability of bread, marching from Paris to Versailles.

●The King met with some of the women and agreed to distribute all the bread in Versailles to the crowd.

5. Why did the king decide to leave France? What happened when he and his family fled?

●Although the King reluctantly accepted the new constitution, he could not accept all the reforms (e.g., the Civil Constitution of the Clergy)
and decided to leave the country.

●What happened was that ”The news of the King's flight destroyed the last of the King's popularity with the people of Paris.”

●“• The popular press portrayed the royal family as pigs and public opinion plummeted.”

6. Who were the sans-culottes? Why were they called that?

●The working men.

●They were called this because they wore loose trousers instead of the tight knee breeches of the nobility.

Multiple Choice

Why were san-culottes called that (san-colottes)?

• They were hard workers.

• They wore loose trousers.

• They wore hats.

• They came up with the name.

Multiple Choice

Why did the king leave France?

• He couldn´t accept all the reforms. (Civils of Constituition of the Clergy.

• He didn´t accept the new constition.

• He hated the country.

Questions 5-8 French Revolution.

7. What happened while the king was under house arrest?

●An angry mob got into their building on June 20th, 1792.

●They insulted him and gave him the red cap of liberty, to put on his head as a
symbol of revolution.

8. Why did france declare war on Austria and Prussia?

●Prussia and Austria tried to defend the monarchy which led conflict with the
French Government.

Multiple Choice

What happened while the king was under house arrest?

• He died.

• His country went under attack.

• An angry mob got into their building.

• There was a big storm.

Multiple Choice

What caused France to declare war on Prussia and Austria?

• Prussia and Austria tried to defend the monarchy.

• France provoked them.

Sources

-The French Revolution Pdf/Google Classroom.

-Google.

French Revolution and Napoleon Distance Learning.pd

French Revolution and Napoleon Distance Learning.pdf

​*TAKE NOTE* You'll see it in a assignment

Before the revolution France was a monarchy.

There was three social classes.