Unit 3: French Revolution Review

Which of the following influenced the French Revolution?

• Slave Trade

• The American Revolutionary War

• World War II

• Global Trade

All of the following are ways that Enlightenment ideas influenced the French Revolution EXCEPT…

• Napoleon based his laws on Enlightenment Idea's

• The third estate wanted equality and freedoms

• Rousseau was a French philosopher who said the government should express the general will of the people

• John Locke encouraged France to start a dictatorship

The Estates-General was France’s law-making body. Absolute monarchs had prevented it from meeting for a few hundred years, but since France was in debt, the king called a meeting to get advice on solving the country’s money problems. Louis XVI decided to solve France’s money problems by…

• Getting donations

• Printing more money

• raising taxes

• invading Great Britain

Why did the third estate form the National Assembly?

• The first and second estate would not listen to them.

• The bourgeoisie wanted to raise taxes for the peasants.

• The first and second estate did not want to participate in government anymore.

• The king told the Estates-General that they could not meet.

Peasants began to protest because of higher taxes. They overtook the government-owned prison called the _______________.

• Shelter

• Bastille

• Palace

• Paris

First, the National Assembly wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which stated that all people are equal and should have rights. One of the articles stated, “The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man…” This refers to…

• Guilty until proven innocent

• Right to bear arms

• Freedom of speech

• Right to own property

Why was Maximilian rule called the Reign of Terror?

• Anyone who opposed revolution was executed

• Thousands of peasants were sent to the guillotine

• Anyone who went against the king was killed

• He was terrified by the clergy

Why was Maximilian executed?

• He hated France

• Citizens wanted change

• He was ugly

• He asked to be killed

The new government that was set up was called the _____________; a five-man council ruled.

• Directory

• absolute monarchy

• constitutional monarchy

• Assembly

In 1804 Napoleon reached the height of his career by crowning himself _______________. By 1807, he had an empire that stretched across Europe.

• consul

• Dictator

• Emperor

• King