Updated Exam French Revolution

The pre-revolution system that divided France into three unequal estates know as the

• Bourgeoisie

• Old Regime

• Class System

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

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

Once France ran out of money and its economy collapsed, who did Louis XVI attempt to tac and what event did it lead to?

• Catholic Church, Concordat

• Second Estate, Estates-General

• Jacobins, Reign of Terror

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

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• National Convention

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

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

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

These people make up the 3rd Estate of the Old regime in France

• Clergy

  Priests and Ministers

• Merchants, workers, peasants

• King

Which was NOT a reason for the French Revolution

• overtaxation and lack of representation of the 3rd estate

• People were starving

• France was in huge debt caused by wars and mismanagement

• Robespierre was a tyrant