Wednesday Final Review

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution
• Marie Antoinette's lavish spending
• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
• all of the above

What was the Divine Right of Kings?

• right to not pay taxes
• God given right to rule
• predetermined rise to power
• enlightenment of kings

This type of government is a rule by one, usually a king or queen and is passed through generations

• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy
• Republic
• Monarchy

This government believes in giving the power to the people and separating the government into separate branches

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Anarchy

The First Estate in French society was composed of 

• the Clergy
• people with special courts
• people who did not pay taxes
• all of the abve

What do these pie charts reveal about the causes of the French Revolution?

• all the estates were taxed equally
• the upper classes paid the most taxes
• the poorest classes paid all the taxes
• the third estate was the wealthiest

brilliant military leader who could be described as ruthlessly ambitious

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• José Bonaparte
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Martha Stewart 

Which of these contributed to the French Revolution?

• defeat and occupation by Prussian army
• rejection of Enlightenment ideas
• participation in the American Revolution
• the rise of Napoleon

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

• unequal tax burdens
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

What was the final outcome of the French Revolution? 

• the declaration of the Edict of Nantes
• Napoleon naming himself Emperor of France
• unification of French city­ states
• the restoration of Louis XVI