The French Revolution Quiz

The King of France during the French Revolution

• Louis XVI

• King George

• Catherine the Great

• Louis XIV

A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• Tennis Court Oath

• Second Estate

A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789 in which they vow to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution

• Estates General

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

• Bastille

In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France

• An Oligarch

• Bankrupt

• Dissolved

• a republic

A Paris prison that housed weapons used in the revolution

• Bastille

• Versailles

• Estates General

• The Tower

Maximilien Robespierre and the Jacobins are best known for

• Protecting the freedom of religion

• Instituting the Reign of Terror

• Supporting the reign of King Louis XVI

• Sending French troops to aid in the American Revolution

Leads the Committee of Public Safety, Designed to suppress opposition inside & outside France, Calls for the execution of King Louis

• Prince Metternich

• Robespierre

• Georges Danton

• Napoleon

Political and social system of France prior to the French Revolution

• Ancient Regime

• The Estates system

• Suffrage

• National Assembly

When Peasants riot throughout France and Nobles homes are ransacked by the third estate

• Reign of Terror

• Suffrage

• The great fear

• Emigre

The Estates General was a type of representation that rarely meet with 1 vote per Estate and the 3^rd Estate ALWAYS outvoted

• True

• False