French Revolution 18.1 and 18.2

The second estate did all of the following EXCEPT:

• Own from 25 to 30 percent of all the land
• Hold high positions in the government and military
• not pay taxes
• harvest crops for the clergy
• Pluto

The Paris Bastille was which of the following?

• a tennis court
• an armory and prison
• Louis's palace
• a restaurant

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed all of the following EXCEPT

• An end to tax exemptions
• freedom of speech
• equal rights for women
• freedom of the press

The National Assembly's Constitution of 1791

• Set up a limited monarchy
• abolished the monarchy
• gave all men a vote
• satisfied the priests and lower classes

The Paris Commune demonstrated, then seized power for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• defeats in the war with Austria
• economic shortages
• loyalty to Prussia
• anger with the monarchy

The Reign of Terror set up the revolutionary courts to prosecute

• Austrian prisoners
• the sans-coulettes
• counterrevolutionaries
• Robespierre's followers

The two dissenting groups within the National Convention were the

• Girondins and the Mountain
• Jacobins and Marats
• Commune and the Paris Mob
• Dantons and Robespierre
• Pluto

The Directory was eventually toppled by

• Robespierre
• Louis XVI
• the Jacobins
• Napoleon Bonaparte

During it's rule, the government of the Directory was oppoesd by

• Robespierre
• conservatives and radicals
• the Jacobins
• moderates

The Committee of Public Safety originally implemented the Reign of Terror to

• defend France against foreign enemies
• oppose the sans-coulottes
• guard Marie Antoinette
• eliminate the King