Enlightenment + French Revolution

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution

• Marie Antoinette's lavish spending

• the 1st and 2nd estates barely paid any taxes

• all of the above

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

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Enlightenment

• all of the above

The Second Estate was composed of 

• Church leaders
• Nobility
• Peasants
• none of the above

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Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

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Why was voting in the Estates General unfair

• votes were not secret
• each estate voted by how many members there were
• each estate got the same number of votes
• the King got two votes

When the people of Paris heard that the military was going to stop the revolution their response was to 

• leave the city
• storm the Bastille
• force the King to come to Paris
• none of the above

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Which of these contributed to the French Revolution?

• defeat and occupation by Prussian army
• rejection of Enlightenment ideas
• participation in the American Revolution
• the rise of Napoleon

Which of the following was an underlying, or deep-­rooted, cause of the French Revolution? 

• unequal tax burdens
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

This document was important in creating the French constitution and declaring its citizens equal.

• Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Declaration of French Independence

• Declaration of Citizen and Rights

When the Third Estate was locked out of the Estates General, they pledged never to disband until a new constitution was created. This event is known as:

• Women's March on Versailles
• Reign of Terror
• The Great Fear
• Tennis Court Oath