AICE French Revolution

Identify the social tension(s) that existed between the nobility and wealthier members of the Third Estate before the French Revolution.

• Some in the middle class resented wealthier middle-class members who bought noble titles.

• The middle class resented the lack of mobility between social classes.

• The nobility resented the increasing political power of the middle class.

• The Church resented the nobility and their power in France.

Match the following

• Voltaire

• supported checks and balances

• Montesquieu

• defended property rights

• Locke

• attacked noble privileges

Match the following

• First Estate

• nobility

• Third Estate

• urban businessmen, laborers, and peasants

• Second Estate

• clergy (the Church)

Identify how the American Revolution influenced the French Revolution.

• "Enlightened" Europeans saw the success of the American citizens as hope for their own political future.

• "Enlightened" Europeans recruited leaders of the American Revolution to travel to France and lead the French Revolution.

• "Enlightened" Europeans analyzed the problems and limitations of the American Revolution and sought to avoid those problems in the future.

• Europeans believed that the American Revolution cost too much money to be implemented in Europe.

Which one of these areas is associated with the Third Estate?

Which one of these areas is associated with the Second Estate?

Which one of these areas is associated with the First Estate?

Identify the economic factors that influenced the French Revolution.

• Physiocrats challenged mercantilist regulations.

• Peasants faced heavy taxation.

• After a series of poor harvests, bread prices increased.

• The monarchy reduced control over grain trade.

Why do modern historians believe that it is incorrect to interpret the French Revolution like a Marxist would as being primarily the result of economic class struggles between the more powerful landed nobility and a frustrated, growing capitalist bourgeoisie class?

• Nobles and wealthy commoners often married, uniting financial clout and social status.

• Wealthy members of the bourgeoisie did not see themselves as a separate class.

• Revolutionary demands of common people cut across economic class lines.

• French aristocrats initiated the political change that began the revolution.

• Capitalists are bankers and merchants, and neither group existed in pre-revolutionary France

Identify the reaction by delegates of the Third Estate to the convening of the Estates General in 1789.

• They met with the Estates General and voted as individuals.

• They met with the Estates General and voted as a body.

• They left the Estates General and declared themselves the National Assembly.

• They tried to reinstate King Louis XVI to the throne.