CH.4.1 Quizzer: The French Revolution Begins

How was French society divided before the French Revolution?

• into nobles and commoners

• into three estates

• into fiefdoms

• into two groups; free people and slaves

What movement influenced both the bourgeoisie and the nobles before the French Revolution?

• Rationalism

• Enlightenment

• Scholasticism

• British Empiricism

After being locked out of their meeting place by anti-revolutionaries, the revolutionary group, known as the National Assembly, met to write...

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Constitution of 1795

• the French Bill of Rights

• Tennis Court Oath

Two basic liberties included in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were...

• freedom of speech and freedom of the press

• equal rights for women and freedom for slaves

• privacy and exemption from taxation

• privileges for the nobles and lands granted to the clergy

social class made up of French clergy

the French parliament

a land tax that hurt the Third Estate mostly...

French middle class...

• bourgeoisie

• middle class

• 3rd estate

• clergy

What was one of the leading causes of social unrest in 18th century France?

• The nobility treated peasants in a manner similar to medieval serfdom.

• The Estates-General made most of the important decision for France.

• The French court spent so much money that people did not respect the Estates-General.

• The peasants owned more land than the nobility.

One economic cause of the French Revolution was an increase in prices, which...

• gave more money to merchants and salesmen.

• depleted the government's monetary reserves.

• led to an equivalent increase in wages among the nobility.

• left people unable to purchase essential goods, such as food.