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WorksheetsFrench Revolution Vocabulary
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What was the "the political and
social system that existed in France before the
French Revolution"?
Old Regime
Estates General
Old Order
National Assembly
What was "one of the three
social classes in France before the French
Revolution"?
estates
parcels
tailles
leagues
What was "an assembly of representatives from all
three of the estates, or social classes, in France"?
Estates General
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
The Directory
What was "a French congress with the power to create laws
and approve declarations of war, established by
the Constitution of 1791"?
Estates General
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
The Directory
What was "a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people"?
Estates General
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
The Directory
What was "a pledge made by the
members of France’s National Assembly
in 1789, in which they vowed to continue
meeting until they had drawn up a new
constitution"?
Tennis Court Oath
Constitutional Oath
Great Fear
Constitutional Court Oath
What was "a wave of senseless panic that
spread through the French countryside after
the storming of the Bastille in 1789"?
Great Fear
Reign of Terror
Panic of 1789
September Massacres
What was "the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator
and thousands of political figures and ordinary
citizens were executed"?
Great Fear
Reign of Terror
Reign of Horror
September Massacres
What was "in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages"?
sans-culottes
emigres
Jacobins
revolutionairres
What was "people who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the peasant uprisings of the French Revolution"?
sans-culottes
emigres
Jacobins
immigres
What was "a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution"?
guillotine
axe
lopper
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