French Revolution Review

The estate that was forced to carry all of the burden by paying taxes and did not receive any privileges

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Bourgeoisie

How did King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette make the 1789 economic situation of France worse?

• Loaning Austria too much money

• Excessive spending

• Closing French Banks

• Printing too much money

After the Third Estate walked out of the Estates-General, what group did they form?

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• National Convention

• Directory

The promise of the National Assembly to stay at Versailles and draft a new constitution was known as the

• Committee of Public Safety

• Peasant Act

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

What happened on July 14, 1789 that is considered the climax of the early French Revolution?

• Storming of the Bastille

• Abolition of noble titles

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

What political party decided the fate of Louis XVI after France became a republic? Who became their leader?

• Sans-culottes/Horatio Nelson

• Conservatives/ Napoleon Bonaparte

• Jacobins/

  Maximilien Robespierre

• Bourbons/

  Louis XVI

After the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror, France got another constitution where power was transferred to a very corrupt five member executive branch called the

• Concordat

• Directory

• Plebiscite

• First Consul

What is the name of this object?

• Guillotine

• Electric chair

• The mirror

What was the name of this king ?

• Louis XIV

• Louis XVI

• Louis VXII

• Napoleon

The Third Estate was made up of these people.

• clergy

• nobles

• common people

• kings and queens