WorksheetsUnit 3: French Revolution Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following influenced the French Revolution?
Slave Trade
The American Revolutionary War
World War II
Global Trade
All of the following are ways that Enlightenment ideas influenced the French Revolution EXCEPT…
Napoleon based his laws on Enlightenment Idea's
The third estate wanted equality and freedoms
Rousseau was a French philosopher who said the government should express the general will of the people
John Locke encouraged France to start a dictatorship
The Estates-General was France’s law-making body. Absolute monarchs had prevented it from meeting for a few hundred years, but since France was in debt, the king called a meeting to get advice on solving the country’s money problems. Louis XVI decided to solve France’s money problems by…
Getting donations
Printing more money
raising taxes
invading Great Britain
Why did the third estate form the National Assembly?
The first and second estate would not listen to them.
The bourgeoisie wanted to raise taxes for the peasants.
The first and second estate did not want to participate in government anymore.
The king told the Estates-General that they could not meet.
Peasants began to protest because of higher taxes. They overtook the government-owned prison called the _______________.
Shelter
Bastille
Palace
Paris
First, the National Assembly wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which stated that all people are equal and should have rights. One of the articles stated, “The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man…” This refers to…
Guilty until proven innocent
Right to bear arms
Freedom of speech
Right to own property
Why was Maximilian rule called the Reign of Terror?
Anyone who opposed revolution was executed
Thousands of peasants were sent to the guillotine
Anyone who went against the king was killed
He was terrified by the clergy
Why was Maximilian executed?
He hated France
Citizens wanted change
He was ugly
He asked to be killed
The new government that was set up was called the _____________; a five-man council ruled.
Directory
absolute monarchy
constitutional monarchy
Assembly
In 1804 Napoleon reached the height of his career by crowning himself _______________. By 1807, he had an empire that stretched across Europe.
consul
Dictator
Emperor
King
Which of the following was NOT a reason why Napoleon began to lose power?
He fought wars with Britain and Russia
Napoleon was ready to retire
Nationalism became popular in France.
French citizens wanted self-rule
Which of the following was NOT a problem his troops faced in Russia?
disease
bitter cold winter
lack of food
fighting against the British
Napoleon was finally defeated by armies led by a British man called the Duke of Wellington. What was the name of the famous battle?
Wellington War
Battle of France
Battle of Paris
Battle of Waterloo
All of the following fueled French desires to revolt against the monarchy except the
ideas of the Enlightenment
Declaration of Independence
Reign of Terror
American Revolution
Which of the following was an underlying, or deep rooted, cause of the French Revolution?
growing French Empire
unequal tax burdens
a law granting peasants more freedom
equal land ownership
The immediate cause that triggered, or started, the French Revolution was the
Storming of the Bastille
Reign of Terror
execution of King Louis Xvi
return of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Declaration of Rights of Man of the Citizen stated the powers of government came from the people, not the king, Who wrote this document?
Thomas Jefferson
Marquis de Lafayette
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte used his power to change France into an empire. What other change did he bring to France?
He raised taxes
He devised a new legal code for France
He ended European wars
He created a bureaucracy based on social class or birth
French society was divided into how many estates before the French Revolution?
Three Estates
Five Estates
Six Estates
One Estate
The first act of the revolution was the
Tennis Court Oath
Civil Obedience Act
Oath of Office
Oath of Freedom
