French Revolution Test Review

What document stated the reasons for revolution and also gave French citizens the rights of liberty, property, security to oppressive rule?

• Tennis Court Allegiance

• National Assembly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

Of the following groups at the Estates General, which group represented the common people of France?

• 1st Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

How could the start of Louis XVI’s rule over France be best described?

• unlimited government

• absolute monarchy

• democratic government

What was the main reason the American colonists were upset with England, their mother country?

• they were not allowed to expand their territory past the Appalachian Mountains

• they were no longer allowed to purchase tea products

• they had to pay taxes even though they had no representatives in Parliament

Which event is considered to be the beginning of the French Revolution?

• the September Massacres

• the Paris Tea Party

• the Storming of the Bastille

After Louis XVI signed the Constitution of 1791, France’s government became a(n)

• unlimited dictatorship

• constitutional monarchy

• democratic republic

The Declaration of the Rights of Man guaranteed all of the following EXCEPT:

• freedom of speech

• equal rights for women

• protection from false arrest

The Committee of Public Safety’s main job during the Reign of Terror was to

• supply the commoners with bread

• protect the king from revolutionaries

• find and execute traitors of the government

Who was the leader of the radical Jacobins that began the Reign of Terror?

• Marat

• Robespierre

• Napoleon

What happened to the Catholic Church in France during the French Revolution?

• they gained power and money

• they joined the 2nd Estate

• they joined the 2nd Estate