French Revolution Review

Problems facing the Ancien Regime (government before the French Revolution)?

• Massive debt from support the American Revolution

• Social Tension - Flawed Tax Structure

• Natural disasters - Two consecutive crop failures (exceptionally cold winters & dry summers) and hail storms

• Weak king Louis XVI

Who payed the majority of taxes in Ancien Regime?

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

Who was the King of France before the French Revolution?

• Henry of Navarre

• Louis XIV

• Louis XVI

• Louis Philippe

King Louis XVI called for what in hopes of getting permission to tax the first & second estate?

• Assembly of Notable

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Directory

An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.

• Assembly of Notables

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Diretory

After being locked out of the Estates General & not getting a vote the 3rd Estate formed?

• Assembly of Notables

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Directory

Members of the Nation Assembly would swear what oath famously painted here?

• The Presidential Oath

• The Oath of Citizenship

• The Tennis Court Oath

• The Hippocratic Oath

The early phase of the French Revolution removing the king is known as the?

• beginning phase

• liberal phase

• radical phase

• directory phase

National Assembly wanted what form of government, similar to that of the British?

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Democratic Republic

• Direct Republic

Louis XVI firing his finance minister & moving troops into Paris would lead to the storming of

• the National Assembly

• the Estates General

• The Bastille

• the palace of Versailles