The French Revolution: Crash Course European History #21

Which of the following best describes government of France prior to the French Revolution?

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Constitutional Republic

Which of the following best describes France's financial situation prior to the French Revolution.

• Bankrupt.

• In decline.

• On the rise.

• Most powerful in Europe.

Support for what nation further bankrupted the French?

• The United States

• Canada

• The United Kingdom

• The Mughal Empire

Who payed the majority of French taxes?

• The Third Estate (the poor / middle class)

• The Second Estate (nobility).

• The First Estate (church)

• The untouchables (poorest of the poor).

What caused bread prices to soar in France prior to the French Revolution?

• A series of natural disasters and poor harvest.

• Global climate change.

• Miss allotment of government funds.

• Rationing for the Seven Years War

In response to the economic crisis in France Louis XVI summonsed the

• the Estates General

• the National Assembly

• the Directory

• Parliament

Which of the following were representative classes in Frances old regime

• The Third Estate (the poor / middle class)

• The Second Estate (nobility).

• The First Estate (church)

• The untouchables (poorest of the poor).

Which of the following best describes the issue the third estate had with the estates general?

• Their combined one vote would always be out voted by the two votes of the first and second estates.

• Their combined one votes was always superior to the other two votes of the first and second estates.

• Louis XVI never had enough seating for all the members of the third estate.

• The voices of the their estate were not able to be all heard at once.

Which of the following best describes the Tennis Court Oath?

• We will not disband until we have constructed a nation of individual citizens instate of a kingdom of servile subjects.

• We will not disband unit the king had recognized and remedied this long train of abuses, granting the people their representation.

Which event happened on July 14th in the French Revolution?

• Parisians stormed the Bastille (Bastille Day).

• Unfinished