French Revolution Review

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

• Bourgeoisie

The promise of the National Assembly to stay at Versailles and draft a new constitution was known as the

• Committee of Public Safety

• Peasant Act

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

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

• Reign of Terror

After being outvoted many times in the past, the third estate established the ________ to write a constitution and create more fair laws.

• National Assembly

• Estate General

• Parliament

• Inquisition

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution
• Marie Antoinette's lavish spending
• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
• all of the above

This device was used to execute thousands of people during the period known as the Reign of Terror.

• guillotine
• gallows
• astrolabe
• Bastille

Who was the leader of the Jacobins during the Reign of Terror?

• Montesquieu

• Napoleon

• Louis XVI

• Robespierre

 What is the name of the document passed by the National Assembly?

• English Bill of Rights
• US Constituion
• Tennis Court Oath
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens

An estimated 40,000 people suspected of being traitors, were executed by the guillotine in one year during the French Revolution. This was known as...

• The Execution

• The Horror

• The Reign of Terror

• The Reign of Burt

What was the purpose of the Women's March to Versailles

• Remove the King and Queen and bring them to Paris

• Fight for women's rights in the new French government

• Fight for health care

• Show allegiance to the Crown