STUDY: FRENCH REVOLUTION

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

• a promise to destroy all of the nation’s tennis bracelets.
• a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution.
• an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean
• . a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed.

Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly’s decrees because

• the army turned against him and threatened to execute him.
• it was the only way he would be allowed to remain mayor of Paris.
• thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and  his family.
• his attempt to escape to Poland had failed.

_________________ was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safety.

• Maximilien Robespierre 
• Jean-Paul Marat 
• Jean Valjean
• Victor Hugo

Who led the coup d’etat that ended the Directory?

• Paris Commune
• Napoleon
• Committee of Public Safety
• Georges Danton

Napoleon’s Continental System was designed to

• defeat Prussia. 
• stop British trade with Europe. 
• unify Italy.
• conquer Protestantism.

What group paid 100% of the taxes in France?

• Girondins
• Second Estate 
• First Estate
• Third Estate

Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed

• the importance of the Bastille.
• an end to aristocratic privileges.
• a movement to restore the monarchy.
• equal rights for women in political life.

The ________, led by Danton and Robespierre, was responsible for sending approximately 16,000 people to the guillotine.

• French Foreign Legion
• Commonwealth of Nations
• Committee of Public Safety
• Legislative Assembly

When news of Louis XVI’s plan to use military force against the National Assembly reached Paris on July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed the ___________________.

• Tuileries Palace
• Versailles Palace         
• Bastille
• Eiffel Tower

What was the main reason that several thousand women marched on Versailles in October 1789?

• bread shortages in Paris
• an influenza outbreak
• universal suffrage for men and women
• an exhibition of Marie Antoinette’s fashions