WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What are estates?
It was a social class of France that included three estates; 1st Clergy, 2nd Nobles, 3rd Everybody else
It was a welfare system
It was a three system of Church hierarchy.
It was a system of the poorest class in France.
What was the ancien regime?
Another term for the Monarchy
Another term for the Nobility
Another term for old order
Another term for social class
What is bourgeoisie?
Another term for middle class
Another term for self-centered
power to the people
Another term for wealthy
What is deficit spending?
When a country's power is based on its trade.
When a country spends more money than it takes in.
the Gross Domestic Product of a country
neither a, b, c
What was the Estates-General?
the legislative body consisting of representatives of the three estates, before making any changes.
the judicial branch of the French Government
the executive brance of the French government
the voice of the people of France during the French Revolution.
What were cashiers?
Places were people gathered for intellectual conservation.
An exchange of currency.
A list of people who were enemies of the Revolution
Another term for notebooks listing grievances.
What was the Bastille?
A grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners.
A government building
Marie Antoinette's Manson.
A housing complex for French soldiers.
What are factions?
Social groups
An elite group of the military
dissenting groups of people who competed to gain power.
neither a, b, or c
The aristocratic "hero of two worlds" who fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution
Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marquis de Lafayette
She was an Austrian born queen married to Louis XVI, she lived a life of great pleasure and extravagance.
Queen Elizabeth
Catherine the Great
Marie Antoinette
Malinche
Nobles, clergy, and others who fled France and its revolutionary forces
Loyalist
Patriots
'émigré's
traitors
Working class men and women who pushed the revolution into more radical action.
the Third Estate
the sans-culottes
the bourgeoisie
the émigrés
Mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals.
Jacobins
ancien regime
cahiers
Bastille
An agreement by which someone gives up their freedom for an organized society.
natural rights
natural law
social contract
salons
All power comes from the people
the Bill of Rights
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
A Federal Republic
Popular Sovereignty
