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French Revolution Vocabulary

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the "the political and

social system that existed in France before the

French Revolution"?

a)

Old Regime

b)

Estates General

c)

Old Order

d)

National Assembly

2.

What was "one of the three

social classes in France before the French

Revolution"?

a)

estates

b)

parcels

c)

tailles

d)

leagues

3.

What was "an assembly of representatives from all

three of the estates, or social classes, in France"?

a)

Estates General

b)

National Assembly

c)

Legislative Assembly

d)

The Directory

4.

What was "a French congress with the power to create laws

and approve declarations of war, established by

the Constitution of 1791"?

a)

Estates General

b)

National Assembly

c)

Legislative Assembly

d)

The Directory

5.

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"?

a)

Estates General

b)

National Assembly

c)

Legislative Assembly

d)

The Directory

6.

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"?

a)

Tennis Court Oath

b)

Constitutional Oath

c)

Great Fear

d)

Constitutional Court Oath

7.

What was "a wave of senseless panic that

spread through the French countryside after

the storming of the Bastille in 1789"?

a)

Great Fear

b)

Reign of Terror

c)

Panic of 1789

d)

September Massacres

8.

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"?

a)

Great Fear

b)

Reign of Terror

c)

Reign of Horror

d)

September Massacres

9.

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"?

a)

sans-culottes

b)

emigres

c)

Jacobins

d)

revolutionairres

10.

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"?

a)

sans-culottes

b)

emigres

c)

Jacobins

d)

immigres

11.

What was "a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution"?

a)

guillotine

b)

axe

c)

lopper

d)

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