WorksheetsPhase 2 French Revolution
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
What two words best describe the second phase of the French Revolution?
Violence
Peace
Stability
Chaos
What kingdom did the Legislative Assembly of France declare war on in 1792 out of fear of a counter revolution and a desire to spread the ideas of the Revolution?
Prussia
Russia
Austria
Great Britain
What other kingdom joined the war against France in 1792?
Russia
Great Britain
Italy
Prussia
Most of the violence took place in Paris in the late summer and early fall of 1792 can be attributed to the group of people represented in the picture. Who were these people?
Girondins
Jacobins
San Culottes
The Boxers
The violent mob often made up be the San Culottes attacked the Tuileries Palace after a Prussian General claimed Paris would be burnt to the ground if any harm fell upon King Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette. What was the name of this threat?
The Austrian Promise
The Russian Revenge
The Brunswick Manifesto
The Prussian Warning
Besides the attack on the Tuileries Palace, the violent mob usually made up of the San Culottes were also responsible for what other violent event in the late summer and early fall of 1792 in which many prisoners were brutally killed?
The Storming of the Bastille
The Women's March to Versailles
The September Massacres
The Fall of the Winter Palace
On September 21, 1792, the Constitutional Monarchy officially came to end. What type of government was established in France?
Oligarchy
Absolute Monarchy
A Republic
A collective Dictatorship
What two political clubs had a major influence on the government that replaced the Constitutional Monarchy during the beginning of the 2nd Phase of the French Revolution?
Jacobins
San Culottes
The Boxers
Girondins
What BEST describes the crime King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were found guilty of during the French Revolution?
Depleting the nations treasury
Treason
Taking financial bribes
Which of the following people met their fate by being sent to the guillotine during the 2nd Phase of the French Revolution?
Marie Antoinette
King Louis XVI
Jean Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre
Charlotte Corday
What problems faced the revolution / republic during the the early part of 1793? These problems quite simply looked like they would end the French Revolution.
Civil War
War with 6 foreign kingdoms/empires
Conflict within the new government between the two political clubs
High food prices
What was the name of the 12 man committee that was given unlimited power to save the revolution / republic during the 2nd Phase of the French Revolution?
The Mountain
The Paris Commune
The Committee of Public Safety
The Directory
What radical programs were established by the 12 man committee to save the republic / revolution during the 2nd Phase of the French Revolution?
The Reign of Terror
De-Christianization
Brutally putting down Civil Wars in France
The Levee en Mass
Which of the following reasons could get you convicted of being a counter revolutionary during the Reign of Terror?
Referring to someone as Citizen when greeting them
Complaining about the price of bread
Not showing enough enthusiasm for the revolution
Being reported by your neighbor for being a counter revolutionary
Which of the following were a part of the radical program called De-Christianization? Remember this program was another program used to help save the republic / revolution?
Changes to the Christian calendar
Allowing priests to marry
Making Jean Paul Marat a saint in the new church of reason
Eliminating the word saint from street signs
Destroying Christian symbols and statues
What was the radical program called the Levee en Mass? This program was instituted to help save the revolution / republic.
French secondary public schools
French primary level public schools
The French military draft
Changing the names of months and days on the French calendar
What ultimately ended the 2nd phase of the French Revolution?
The execution of Jean Paul Marat
The execution of the King Louis XVI
The execution of Maximilien Robespierre
