French Revolution: Distance Learning Review

This group in French Society was known as the 2nd Estate

• The Clergy

• The People

• The Nobles

• The Press

This group in French Society was known as the 3nd Estate

• The Clergy

• The People

• The Nobles

• The Press

The name for the Middle Class in French Society, very active in the Revolution.

• The Clergy

• The People

• The Nobles

• The Bourgeoisie

Which of the following are reasons for the French Financial Crisis

• Poor harvest causing Famine and Unemployment

• Extravagant spending by the King and Queen

• Costly Foreign Wars

• Lack of trade due to the English Blockade

Unhappy with having 1 vote in the Estates general, the 3rd estate vowed to make a new gov and named itself...

• The National Assembly

• The Sans-culottes

• The National Convention

• The Proletariat

It was this event when people rallied to support/protect the National Assembly and turned things into a full Revolution

• The Storming of the Bastille

• The Flight of the Royals

• The Declaration of Pillnitz

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

After the King was declared an enemy of the state, the National Convention was elected to create this type of gov.

• Democracy

• Republic

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Communism

As head of the Committee of Public safety which used "The Reign of Terror" to execute enemies of the Revolution

• Jean Paul Marat

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Georges Danton

• Maximillian Robespierre

The Victories of the Army allowed for the end of the Reign of Terror and an new government known as...

• The Directory

• The Depository

• The Paris Commune

• The Vichy Government

This laid out the principals and beliefs on equality that the Revolution was founded on

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of Pillnitz

• The Concordat