French Revolution Common Assessment

Many aristocrats and members of the bourgeoisie were attracted to _________________________________ some of which criticized France’s absolutist system.

• the Tennis Court Oath

• Enlightenment philosophies

• the ideas of the National Assembly

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

One economic cause of the French Revolution was an increase in prices, which

• channeled more money to merchants and salesmen.

• depleted the government’s monetary reserves.

• led to an equivalent increase in wages among the nobility.

• left people unable to purchase essential goods, such as food.

Which countries formed a coalition against France after the execution of Louis XVI?

• Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and the Dutch Republic

• Britain and the United States

• Italy, Spain, and the Ottoman Empire

• Spain, Portugal, the United States, and the Dutch Republic

 Under Robespierre, the Convention pursued a policy of de-Christianization because its members believed

• religion supported the monarchy.

• religion encouraged superstition rather than the use of reason.

• other religions should be represented in France.

• church and state should be separate

The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute

• Austrian prisoners.

• the sans-culottes and other members of the Paris Commune

• counterrevolutionaries and traitors.

• Robespierre’s followers.

social class made up of French clergy (Roman Catholic Church)

• First Estate

• bourgeoisie

• Estates-General

• National Assembly

the French middle class

• First Estate

• Estates-General

• National Assembly

• bourgeoisie

a land tax that hurt the Third Estate most

• Estates-General

• taille

• bourgeoisie

• National Assembly

the French parliament

• bourgeoisie

• First Estate

• Estates-General

• taille

name taken by the Third Estate when promising to draft a new constitution

• bourgeoisie

• Estates-General

• First Estate

• National Assembly