KC1.1 French Revolution Causes and Immediate Outcomes Checkpt

What was the purpose for King Louis XVI calling the Estates-General in 1789?

• He wanted to go to war to aid the Americans against Britain and needed money

• He needed a way to raise revenue for his new palace

• France was at the breaking point of the debt crisis and the government needed a solution

• The Estates-System was ended and the August Decrees announced a new government that Louis XVI was challenging.

A the Tennis Court Oath in July of 1789, the representatives

• wrote a constitution

• took an oath to end the Estates System in France

• Refused to acknowledge Louis XVI's absolute rule

• pledged to write a constitution for France inspired by the Enlightenment

The symbolic start to the French Revolution in 1789 was

• The storming of the Bastille

• The Tennis Court Oath

• The Great Fear

• The Women's March on Versailles

The document that ended the Estates System in France was

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• The August Decrees

• The Emigres

• The Constitution of 1790

By the start of 1790, which was true of King Louis XVI of France?

• He had been beheaded

• He divorced Marie Antoinette

• He maintained absolute power from the safety of Austria

• He was made a constitutional monarch

The Ancien Regime of France was

• the constitution of 1790

• The official name for the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• The French National Assembly

• The Old Order and the Estates System of France