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Worksheets8B FRENCH REVOLUTION
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 25mins
Which of the following made up 1% of the French population, and included clergy?
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Middle Class
Which of the following made up 2% of the French population, and included nobles?
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Peasants
The ___ made up roughly 97% of the French population.
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Church officials
Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution?
Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes.
Only about 2 percent of the nobility paid any taxes.
The nobility paid taxes only on land, not on income.
The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes.
Napoleon Bonaparte was unable to conquer which two European countries during the Napoleonic Wars?
Scotland and England
Great Britain and Germany
Great Britain and Russia
Russia and Germany
While Napoleon was in exile and organizing an attack against the British, they captured him and exiled him to ___.
Elba
St. Simons
St. Helena
Russia
Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate General
Nobles: Had land and wealth. Did NOT have to pay taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estates General
Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate System
This system was based on social classes. The people with the most money did not have to pay taxes. The Third Estate had to pay all the taxes.
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate System
The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.
Estates General
Estates System
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.
King Louis XVI
King Louis XIV
Marie Antoinnette
Robespierre
The document that increased the rights of all French citizens
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Declaration of Independence
Tennis Court Oath
Constitution
The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution
The Bastille
The Tennis Court
Versailles Palace
Paris
Estate
Social class consisting of the clergy.
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
The CHURCH!
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
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
A machine for beheading people used as a means of execution during the French Revolution.
Beheader
National Razor
Guillotine
Head chopper-offer 3000
The French Revolution was inspired by _______________ thinkers.
Scientific Revolution
Clergy
Enlightenment
Revolutionary
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
Which of the following was a reason why France was nearly bankrupt?
The king lowered taxes
The king took their money to create jobs
The king spent the taxes on wars and himself
They had fought against the Americans in the revolution
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
Who were the bourgeoisie?
The middle class professionals
The 1st Estate
The peasant farmers
The nobles
What charter, passed by the National Assembly, officially destroyed the inequality of the Old Regime?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Constitution of 1791
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of Independence
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
Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.
King Louis XVI
King Louis XIV
Marie Antoinnette
Robespierre
The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution
The Bastille
The Tennis Court
Versailles Palace
Paris
where was the tennis court oath take
Basketball courts
Tennis courts
The horse stables
The church
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
When did the revolutionist storm Bastille
July 14 1889
July 14 1789
July 15 1789
June 14 1789
Who was King Louis Married to
Josephine Bonaparte
Marie Antoinette
