The French Revolution & Napoleon

Which of the following is true about each Estate?

• The First Estate did not have to pay tax

• The Third Estate paid for the majority of the taxes

• The Second Estate was made up of the nobility.

• All of these are true.

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

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

All of the following inspired the French Revolution EXCEPT which answer.

• American Revolution

• Reign of Terror

• Declaration of Independence

• The Enlightenment

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

• unequal taxes

• equal land ownership

• a law granting peasants more freedom

• a growing French empire

The French Revolution started with the storming of what prison?

• Bastille

• White House

• Palace

• Guillotine

The Reign of Terror was a period during the Revolution where what happend?

• Thousands of French people were sent to the guillotine

• The Committee of Public Safety used terror to keep the Republic safe

• It ended with the beheading of Robespierre

• all of the above

What new method of execution was primarily used during the Reign of Terror?

• By hangin

• Firing squad

• Guillotine

• Burned at the stake

Which of the following inspired the French Revolution?

• The Reign of Terror and the Ideas of the Enlightenment

• The Napoleonic Code and ideas of the Enlightenment

• Ideas of the Enlightenment and the American revolution

• The Scientific Revolution and the Reign of Terror

Which General took control of France with a coup d'etat after the Revolution named himself Emperor, and conquered most of Europe?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Louis XIV

• Robespierre

• Louis XVI

What document used the Declaration of Independance as a model and gave basic freedoms to the people of France and created a Constitutional Monarchy?

• Treaty of Paris

• Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• Congress of Berlin

• Declaration of Independance