WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 20
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Who was the King of France during the French Revolution?
Maximilien Robespierre
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI
Napoleon Bonaparte
Why were peasants upset by taxes(SELECT TWO)
They weren't high enough
They were too high
Tax evasion was very common
Taxes were unfair among the estates
Legislative group in France prior to the French Revolution that Louis had to meet with to raise taxes on the 3rd Estate:
Congress
Estates General
National Assembly
Old Regime
Which group was taxed the most prior to the Revolution?
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
All taxed equally
Which events was the officially started the French Revolution?
Storming of the Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
Spanish Invasion
Shooting at Lexington and Concord
where did the 3rd estate storm for weapons
The tennis courts
The homes of citizens
the church
Bastille
Which government was created by the 3rd Estate at that start of the Revolution?
National Assembly
National Convention
Directory
Committee of Public Safety
The ______ took place when the 3rd estate swore to write a constitution.
Scorched Earth
Storming of the Bastillee
Estates General
Tennis Court Oath
Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety and established the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon
Louis XVI
Louis XIV
Robespierre
What was the Reign of Terror?
A period of mass execution without evidence
A war against Austria, Britain and Prussia
People getting beaten
The Storming of the Bastille
What method was the most often used means of execution during the Reign of Terror in France?
Guillotine
Hanging
Electric chair
Firing squad
Which famous General seized power in 1795, crowned himself Emperor and brought the Revolution to an end?
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles deGaulle
Charlemagne
What were the series of laws passed by Napoleon that stabilized and unified France?
Declaration of Rights of men
Napoleonic Code
Bill of Rights
Constitution
A disastrous attempt to invade which country was the beginning of Napoleon's downfall?
Poland
Austria
Russia
Prussia
What was Russia's scorched-earth policy?
Burning crops and villages as they retreated
Invading France as the French army invaded Russia
Encircling the French army as they approached
Attacking the French army with burning projectiles
The Napoleonic Code embodied ______________principles such as the quality of all citizens before the law, and religious toleration.
totalitarian
dictatorship
Enlightenment
socialist
