Which of these helped inspire the French Revolution?

• The American Revolution

• Enlightenment ideas

• Poor people getting sick and tired of rich people having everything

• all of those

What were the Three Estates?

• The artists, the workers, and the government

• Montagnyard, Blissville, and Tule

• The church people, the rich people, and everyone else

• Workers, royals, and God

What was the Enlightenment?

• In the 1900s, artists began painting pictures showing people who were free and happy.

• In the 1700s, thinkers suggested that people should have freedom and equality.

• In the 1700s, the sun became much brighter.

• In the 1500s, a philosopher named Modiefjermgen wrote that we should get rid of all royals.

King Louis asked the Estates-General to let him ___________________.

• Tax the First and Second Estates.

• Go on vacation.

• Tax people in other countries.

• Buy a house the size of a whole city.

The First and Second Estates said, "____."

• Yes, you may tax us.

• No, you may NOT tax us.

• Go away. You smell funny.

• They said nothing. They were asleep.

When the nobles and clergy refused to give up their rights and privileges, a bunch of people stormed ____________________.

• out of the room.

• into Paris and tore down the Eiffel Tower.

• the gates of the royal palace.

• the Bastille, a famous and horrible prison.

Out in the countryside, the _______________ rose up against the _________.

• peasants, nobles

• toymakers, children

• landowners, artists

• army, Lumberjacks' Union

A new government was formed, called the _____________________.

• National Convention

• New Government

• Le Gouvernement Nouveau

• the People's Assembly

The Jacobins, a powerful group in the National Convention, insisted that:

• the revolution had gone too far

• the revolution had not gone far enough

• dogs made better pets than cats

• a peasant named Hercule Poirot be made President.

The Convention had King Louis put on trial and ____________________.

• executed on the guillotine

• locked in the Bastille for life

• banished from France

• paddled