French Revolution

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution

• Marie Antoinette's (Queen) lavish spending

• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes

• all of the above

The Second Estate was composed of 

• Church leaders
• Nobility
• Peasants
• none of the above

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Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

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The First Estate was made up of this group.

• clergy

• common people
• nobles
• kings and queens

The Third Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy
• nobles
• common people
• kings and queens

What was the Divine Right of Kings?

• right to not pay taxes
• God given right to rule
• predetermined rise to power
• enlightenment of kings

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

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

This type of government is a rule by one, usually a king or queen and is passed through generations

• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy
• Republic
• Monarchy

Members of the third estate marched to this fortress in search of weapons to arm the revolution

• The Estates General
• The Palace of Versailles
• The Eiffel Tower
• The Bastille

The three estates consisted of which groups of people?

• Clergy, Nobles, and Everyone else
• Clergy, Nobility, Jacobins
• The King, the Catholic Church, and the Medicis
• Nobility, the King, and the Peasants