The French Revolution

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution

• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes

• the queen's lavish spending

• all of the above

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Enlightenment

• Medieval Times

• The Tennis Court Oath

• The Glorious Revolution

Most people of France belonged to the

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• 4th Estate

Why was voting in the Estates General unfair?

• votes were not secret

• each estate got the same number of votes

• the King got two votes

• each estate voted by how many members there were

When the other estates refused to change voting rules the 3rd Estate

• met separately

• took the Tennis Court Oath

• created the National Assembly

• all of the above

The National Assembly set down the ideas of the Revolution in

• the Declaration of Independence

• the U.S. Constitution

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man

• the Edict of Nantes

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the Guillotine?

• no one

• known revolutionaries

• the nobility

• only Maximillien Robespierre

French King who was executed during the Revolution

• Napoleon

• Louis XVI

• King George III

• Maximillien Robespierre

How did the Enlightenment and the American Revolution influence the French Revolution?

• the people of France overthrew their absolute monarchy

• support for absolute monarchy increased

• absolute monarchy was strengthened

• France was divided into three estates

The Second Estate was composed of

• church leaders

• nobility

• peasants

• none of the above