WorksheetsFrench Revolution Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Problems facing the Ancien Regime (government before the French Revolution)?
Massive debt from support the American Revolution
Social Tension - Flawed Tax Structure
Natural disasters - Two consecutive crop failures (exceptionally cold winters & dry summers) and hail storms
Weak king Louis XVI
Who payed the majority of taxes in Ancien Regime?
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Fourth Estate
Who was the King of France before the French Revolution?
Henry of Navarre
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Louis Philippe
King Louis XVI called for what in hopes of getting permission to tax the first & second estate?
Assembly of Notable
Estates General
National Assembly
Directory
An assembly of representatives from all three of the estates, or social classes, in France.
Assembly of Notables
Estates General
National Assembly
Diretory
After being locked out of the Estates General & not getting a vote the 3rd Estate formed?
Assembly of Notables
Estates General
National Assembly
Directory
Members of the Nation Assembly would swear what oath famously painted here?
The Presidential Oath
The Oath of Citizenship
The Tennis Court Oath
The Hippocratic Oath
The early phase of the French Revolution removing the king is known as the?
beginning phase
liberal phase
radical phase
directory phase
National Assembly wanted what form of government, similar to that of the British?
Absolute Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Democratic Republic
Direct Republic
Louis XVI firing his finance minister & moving troops into Paris would lead to the storming of
the National Assembly
the Estates General
The Bastille
the palace of Versailles
The man in that fancy hat represents what people group of the Third Estate?
Nobility
Clergy
Bourgeois
San Culottes
They were the urban poor; low wage workers who were often out of work and hungry.
Nobility
Clergy
Bourgeois
San Culottes
What document was written by the National Assembly as the guiding document of the revolution?
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen
The Constitution
The Napoleonic Code
This monarch didn't say, "Let them eat cake" when an angry mob of woman approached Versailles.
Maria Theresa
Marie Antoinette
Charlotte Corday
Olympe de Gouges
This incident forced the royal family to move from the palace of Versailles.
Storming of the Bastille
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen
The Woman's March
Did other Absolute Monarchs across Europe support the French Revolution?
Yes
No
What would the National Assembly vote to do when threatened with invasion?
Go on the defensive. Wait to be invaded.
Go on the offensive and strike first.
What was an advantage of the French Army?
Strong supplies lines.
Very patriotic.
Very large national army (nation in arms)
International Support
What radical group would take control of France after the National Assembly?
The Jacobins
The Directory
The National Assembly
The Bourbons
The National Convention would sentence who to death?
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
George Danton
What organization was set up to protect France from external & internal threats?
Committee of Political Savvy
Committee of Police Safety
Committee of Public Safety
Committee of Pot Smoking
This radical phase of the revolution saw the mass excitation of "enemies of the revolution".
The Salem Witch Trails
the Reign of Terror
The Trail of Tears
The Inquisition
This device was used extensively during the reign of terror to kill all people equally.
Thumb screws
The Iron Maiden
Guillotine
Hanging
Radical French journalist that was assassinated by Charlotte Corday?
Maximilien Robespierre
George Danton
Marat
Olympe de Gouges
This feminist and abolitionist was executed during the reign of terror?
Marie Tresa
Marie Antoinette
Charlotte Corday
Olympe de Gouges
The National Convention would do which of the following?
Dechristianization
Abolition of the traditional calendar.
Abolition of traditional measures of time.
Introduce the Cult of the Supreme Being,
The Thermidorian Reaction would end the Reign of Terror & the reign of?
Maximilien Robespierre
George Danton
Jaques Hebert
Napoleon
After the reign of terror the bourgeoisie would gain power in a phase known as?
the Liberal phase
the Radical phase
the Directory phase
the Napoleonic phase
Who would end the France Revolution through a coup d'etat?
Lord Horatio Nelson
Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
Leo Tolstoy
French painter who's works include The Oath of the Horatii (1785) and The Death of Marat (1793)
Johannes Vermeer
Rembrant
Albrecht Durer
Jacques-Louis David
