The French Revolution

The First Estate was made up of this group.

• clergy

• common people

• nobles

• kings and queens

The Second Estate was made up of France's -

• clergy

• common people

• priests

• nobles

The Third Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy
• nobles
• common people
• kings and queens

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 1st and 3rd Estates

What happened at the Storming of the Bastille? 

• When French women stormed the palace. 
• A period of mass executions. 
• Storming of the French prison.End of the French Revolution. 
• Peasants storm a French prison. Beginning of French Rev. 

Which of the following was a reason why France was nearly bankrupt?

• The king lowered taxes

• The king took their money to create jobs

• The king spent the taxes on wars and himself

• They had fought against the Americans in the revolution

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What did the National Assembly promise to do in the Tennis Court Oath?

• To execute the king

• To write a new constitution

• To stage a Coup d'etat

• To make France independent

What charter, passed by the National Assembly, officially destroyed the inequality of the Old Regime?

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• Constitution of 1791

• Tennis Court Oath

• Declaration of Independence

In 1791, France's new constitution changed France's government to a(n) _________________.

• Republic

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Dictatorship

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The King was

• a. found guilty of treason

• b. executed by guillotine

• c. killed in prison by sans culottes

• d. both a. and b.