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Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 32mins
Estate
clergy
Social class consisting of the clergy.
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
The CHURCH!
The bourgeoisie lead this estate and it was made up of merchants, artisans, cooks, servants, peasants etc.
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
1.2.3.. BOURGEOISIE!
An assembly of representatives from all three estates that met for the first time in 175 years when Louis XVI called them together.
Estates General
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen
A pledge made by members of France's National Assembly in 1789 in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drafted a new Constitution.
Tennis Court Oath
Handball Oath
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
July 14, 1789, a French mob stormed a prison. The mob successfully captured the gunpowder they were after.
Storming of the Bastille
The Great Fear
Storming of Pompei
Sandstorm
Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by France's National Assembly.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
A radical group of Parisian wage-earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end of food shortages.
Sans-Cullotes
Moderates
Emigres
Jacobins
Radical political club during the French Revolution that wanted to remove the king and establish a republic. Both middle class men and women joined.
Sans-Cullotes
Radicals
Emigres
Jacobins
A machine for beheading people used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
Beheader
National Razor
Guillotine
Head chopper-offer 3000
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, he and his followers tried to wipe out all traces of France's past monarchies.
Louis XVI
Maximillien Robespierre
Jean-Paul Marat
Napoleon Bonaparte
A committee established during the French Revolution to identify "enemies of the republic."
Committee of Public Safety
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Estates General
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
French Revolution
Reign of Terror
Tennis Court Oath
In 1791, France's new constitution changed France's government to a(n) _________________.
Republic
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Dictatorship
What did the National Assembly promise to do in the Tennis Court Oath?
To execute the king
To write a new constitution
To stage a Coup d'etat
To make France independent
Which of the following wars helped to inspire the French Revolution?
The American Civil War
The French and Indian War
American Revolution
The Seven Years War
What kind of leader was King Louis XVI?
very militaristic
weak and indecisive
powerful and well respected
friendly and well liked
This newspaper publisher was a radical revolutionist who was killed in a bathtub by a woman who wanted to end the bloodshed of the Revolution.
Jean Paul Marat
Charlotte Corday
Maximilien Robespierre
Olympe de Gouges
Which of the following best describes the group that makes up two percent of the population in France prior to the revolution and owns 25 percent of the land?
2nd Estate
1st Estate
3rd Estate
Nobility
Which description best describes the Bourgeoisie of France?
lowest level of the 3rd estate
highest level of the 3rd estate
middle level of the 3rd estate
highest level of the 2nd estate (nobility)
Which of the following statements best describes the Petty Bourgeoisie?
highest level of the 3rd estate
middle level of the 3rd estate
lowest level of the 3rd estate
2nd estate nobility
Which of the following statements best describes the three groups of the 3rd Estate?
clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, peasants
clergy, nobility, royalty
Petty bourgeoisie, nobility, clergy
What document placed the Catholic Church under the control of the French government instead of the Pope?
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Directory
The Constitution of 1791
What percentage of people executed during the Reign of Terror were actually from the 3rd Estate?
25
15
93
85
Known as the “Seven Years War” in the Americas, this war was fought partially on American soil from 1756-1763 and cost Louis XV (Louis XVI’s grandfather) and France millions. This was one of the conflicts responsible for the debts of France prior to the Revolution:
French & Indian War
American Revolution
Austrian War of Succession
Spanish-American War
What document created a parliamentary monarchy in France, removing some of Louis XVI's power?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Naploleonic Code
The Constitution of 1791
Who was the moderate Girondin assassin who killed Jean Paul Marat in his medicinal bathtub?
Charlotte Corday
Olympe de Gouges
Maria Theresa
Georges Danton
What two political groups emerged from the Jacobins to disagree about the fate of Louis XVI
The Mountain & Girondin
Sans Culottes & Mountain
Sans Culottes & Girondin
Harpy & Vigilance
The Estates General was an assembly called together by Louis XVI to do what?
divide nobility into equal estates
change the social order of France
Establish a French Republic
Raise revenues through new taxes
The pledge of the 3rd Estate to write and establish a new form of government after being locked out of the Estates General:
The Tennis Court Oath
The Jacobin Pledge
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Great Fear
To what country did Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette try to escape as the monarchy began to lose power?
Prussia
Austria
Spain
England
The French Revolution can be divided into several time periods. During which of the following time periods were 40-50,000 people executed?
The Great Fear
The Age of Napoleon
The Reign of Terror
The Golden Age of France
Marie Antoinette was from what country?
England
Spain
Austria
Prussia
Which of the following figures of the French Revolution was assassinated?
Danton
Marat
Corday
Robespierre
The guillotine was not the only form of execution during the French Revolution. Where were 1,800 “enemies of the revolution” executed by cannon fire?
Lyon
Nantes
Paris
Navarre
Which of the following people was executed FIRST?
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Charlotte Corday
Marat
Robespierre
What year do we consider to be the beginning of the French Revolution - as it was the year of the Tennis Court Oath and the year the Estates-General was called together
1776
1789
1791
1792
This man was Louis XVI's finance minister and his firing was a final straw for the 3rd Estate
Jacques Necker
Robespierre
Jean-Paul Marat
Georges Danton
