Unit 3 Test Version 3

Words about equality in the Declaration of Independence reflected the Enlightenment ideas of

• Benjamin Franklin.

• John Locke.

• Samuel Adams.

Under the __________, everyone in France was divided into one of three social classes.

The three social classes in France in 1789 were made up of what groups?

• the church, the bourgeoisie, and the peasants

• nobles, clergy, and the rest of society

• the king, the court, and the rest of society

What or whom did Parisians hope to find when they stormed the Bastille?

• bread

• weapons

• Jacques Necker

As a first step toward writing a constitution, the National Assembly issued the

• Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

• Tennis Court Oath.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

European rulers opposed the French Revolution because:

• they were afraid that revolutionary ideas would spread to their own countries.

• it granted more power to the French Catholic Church.

• the disruptions in France threatened world trade.

The French Revolution dislodged the old social order, overthrew the monarchy, and

• brought the Church under state control.

• joined France with Spain in an alliance.

• elevated the rights of both men and women.

Robespierre was one of the main architects of the

• Reign of Terror.

• suffrage.

• guillotine

__________ was already a popular military hero when the French politicians turned to him.

Who first declared themselves to be the National Assembly?

• the First Estate

• the Second Estate

• the Third Estate