French Revolution Review

The First Estate was made up of this group.

• clergy

• common people
• nobles
• kings and queens

The Second Estate was made up of the these people.

• clergy

• common people

• priests

• nobles

The Third Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy
• nobles
• common people
• kings and queens

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 1st and 3rd Estates

The first government of the French Revolution was called:

• National Guard
• National Assembly
• National Congress
• Continental Congress

One cause of the French Revolution was the emergence of a new middle class of merchants and professionals called the 

• bourgeoisie
• aristocracy
• sans culottes
• denoument

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Which event is considered the beginning of the French Revolution?

• Napoleon's Coup d'etat
• The formation of the Committee of Public Safety
• Storming of the Bastille
• The Reign of Terror

What is the name of the document passed by the National Assembly?

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens
• US Constituion
• Tennis Court Oath
• English Bill of Rights

When the National Assembly passed a new constitution for France, France became a _____________.

• Republic
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Dicatorship

What is a characteristic of the National Convention, Jacobins, and Maximilien Robespierre?

• religious
• traditional
• conservative
• Radical