WORLD HISTORY-Chapter 18

Paris Commune members, many of whom were called ________.

• priests

• sans-culottes

• aristocrats

• bureaucrats

One of three classes into which French society was divided before the revolution is referred to a/an ________.

• taille

• estate

• faction

• assembly

A/an ________ is a sudden overthrow of the government.

• election

• rebellion

• coup d'état

• crowning

In 1799 Napoleon headed a new government called the ________.

• consulate

• Reign of Terror

• Glorious Revolution

• Republic of Virtue

Under the Constitution of 1795, only ________ or qualified voters, could elect members to the legislative

• priests

• electors

• aristocrats

• taille

Who called a meeting of the Estates-General in 1789?

• Members of the First Estate

• Members of the Third Estate

• King Louis XVI

• Olympe de Gouges

Which right did the Third Estate demand in the Estates-General?

• To have freedom of religion

• To have access to the Louvre

• That each deputy have one vote

• To form their own militia

The Constitution of 1791 set up which form of government?

• A limited monarchy

• An absolute monarchy

• A democracy

• A republic

What did the European nations that opposed the revolution threaten to do?

• Execute Louis XVI

• Form a Republic of Virtue

• Take away France's territories

• Invade France

Thousands of people who opposed the government were executed when __________ was in power.

• Louis XVI

• the Estates-General

• the Committee of Public Safety

• Napoleon