The French Revolution

Put these events in chronological order from first to last:

a. Representatives of the third estate gather at a tennis court and swear to continue meeting until a new French constitution is drafted. King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine on charges of treason, while his wife, Marie Antoinette, is executed a few months later.

b. A crowd of angry, hungry women marches from Paris to Versailles to force the royal family back to Paris.

c. King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine on charges of treason, while his wife, Marie Antoinette, is executed a few months later.

d. French soldier Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power and makes himself the emperor of France.

• a,c,b,d

• a,d,c,b

• a,b,c,d

• b,a,c,d

Check the two features below that belong to the storming of the Bastille

• considered the official

  beginning of the

  French Revolution

• marked the end of

  absolute monarchy

  in France

• symbolized the people’s

  protest and triumph

  against absolute monarchy

Check the one feature below that belongs to the Execution of Louis XVI

• considered the official

  beginning of the

  French Revolution

• marked the end of

  absolute monarchy

  in France

• symbolized the people’s

  protest and triumph

  against absolute monarchy

Check the TWO boxes below that are characteristics of Intellectual causes

• introduction of new concepts

  such as popular sovereignty

• the government’s

  involvement in the

  American Revolution

• the spread of ideas

  concerning natural

  and human rights

• government overspending

  to fund the king’s

  extravagant lifestyle

Check the TWO boxes below that are characteristics of Economic causes

• introduction of new concepts

  such as popular sovereignty

• the spread of ideas

  concerning natural

  and human rights

• the government’s

  involvement in the

  American Revolution

• government overspending

  to fund the king’s

  extravagant lifestyle

Which of the following was an effect of the French Revolution?

• the construction of schools and colleges that spread Enlightenment thought

• the reorganization of the French government based on heredity and nobility

• the elimination of special privileges for members of the first and second estates

• the creation of a new social class comprising the nobles and the bourgeoisie

How was the adoption of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy a significant event during the French Revolution?

• It made the clergy sympathetic to the farmers’ suffering.

• It granted the clergy freedom to leave France for Italy.

• It compelled the clergy to participate in charitable acts.

• It gave citizens the right to elect priests and bishops.

Select the TWO correct answers

In which two ways did the spread of Enlightenment thought contribute to the French Revolution?

• Enlightenment ideas made the people increasingly rigid in their values and mindset.

• Enlightenment thinkers’ ideas influenced prominent revolutionaries to act.

• Enlightenment thoughts introduced people to other forms of government such as popular sovereignty.

• Enlightenment concepts urged people to discover creative ways to win government privileges.

• Enlightenment professors inspired students to cultivate a rebellious and revolutionary spirit.

How did the French Revolution affect the French colony of Saint-Domingue, or Haiti?

• It inspired the Haitian people to mount their own rebellion for independence.

• It caused the Haitian people to ally with England to conquer the French Republic.

• It encouraged the Haitian people to demand an annual share of France’s riches.

• It made the Haitian people suspicious of their French colonizers’ intentions.

Read the following excerpt from the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen.

The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.

Based on the excerpt, which TWO rights or freedoms were the people of France entitled to after the revolution?

• press

• petition

• armament

• association

• speech