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WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 28mins
Social class in France made up of peasants, artisans, and the middle class
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Name one reason for France’s financial crisis in 1789?
National Debt
No Taxes
Continental System
Name one moderate reform made by the National Assembly between 1789-1791
Ended Privileges
Guillotine
Lasting Peace
Reinstated the King
Radicals who saw themselves as the defender of the revolution and as the voice of the
Robespierre
Jacobins
Girondins
Leader of the Jacobins who headed the Committee of Public Safety
Jacobins
Louis XVI
Robespierre
Louis XVIII
Name one effect of the French Revolution on France
Nationalism Spreads
Civil war
Better food
What accounted for the high mortality rate of the French Army in Russia?
winter
Russia had more soldiers
soldiers died from fighting in the heat
All are ways in which Napoleon changed the world except:
Napoleonic Code
Invasion of Spain
Louisiana Purchase
Lasting Peace
This Admiral led the British navy to victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson
Marie Antoinette
King Louis XVI
Wellington
She was the Queen of France when the French Revolution took place
Elizabeth
Marie Antoinette
Anne
Joan
Social class in France made up of the nobility
2nd Estate
1st Estate
3rd Estate
Term for the French middle class
1st Estate
Bourgeoisie
proletariat
He would take over the Directory in 1799 and eventually name himself Emperor of France
Louis XVI
Louis XVIII
Napoleon
Wellington
A meeting of delegates representing each social class
Legislative Assembly
Estates General
Émigrés
Sans-Culottes
Meaning “without breeches,” these working class man or woman made the French Revolution possible
Sans-Culottes
Bourgeoisie
Émigrés
A person who flees his or her country for political reasons
Sans-Culottes
Estates General
Émigrés
Guillotine
Device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading
Guillotine
Hanging
Firing squad
Gas chamber
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country is nationalism: True or false
True
False
The National Assembly took this oath, promising not to disband until they had written a constitution
The Vienna Oath
The French Revolution Oath
Ping Pong Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath
Moderates who felt the revolution had gone far enough and wanted to protect the middle class
Jacobins
Girondins
sans-culottes
2nd Estate
A sudden overthrow of the government
Revolution
coup d'etat
tithe
guillotine
Period from September 1793 to July 1794 when people in France were arrested and executed for not
supporting the revolution
Reign of Terror
September Massacres
Great Fear
Grand Pear
Where Napoleon was defeated for good in Belgium by the Duke of Wellington
Elba
Paris
Moscow
Waterloo
The National Assembly composed this document in August 1789 and is the French Constitution today
Declaration of Independence France
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Common Sense
Constitution of France
What marked the end of the Reign of Terror?
Execution of Robespierre
Execution of Louis XVI
Napoleon overthrowing the Directory
Founding of the Committee of Public Safety
He was the absolute monarch of France at the start of the French Revolution
Louis XVI
Louis XVIII
Napoleon
Military tactic in which soldiers destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy was the Destroy Earth Policy: True or False
True
False
A huge mob stormed this French prison to steal weapons needed to defend the Assembly
Bastille
Fresnes
Bagne of Toulon
La Santé
