WorksheetsFrench revolution
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The King of France during the French Revolution. He was the King who was beheaded via the Guillotine.
Maximilien Robespierre
Louis XVI
Estates General
Bastille
A Paris prison that housed weapons used in the revolution
Third Estate
Estates General
_Bastille
National Assembly
The Jacobin leader who set out to build a “republic of virtue”, and was later beheaded. Lead the Reign of Terror
King Henry
Louis X
Louis XVI
Maximilien Robespierre
A French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate
National Assembly
Third Estate
Estates General
Reign of Terror
The period when Robespierre ruled France as a dictator and thousands of political figures and citizens were executed
Tennis Court Oath
Reign of Terror
Estates General
Bastille
An assembly of representatives from all three states
Bastille
National Assembly
Third Estate
Estates General
A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789 in which they vow to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
Pledge of Allies
The France Pledge
Tennis Court Oath
The Oath of Continuance
The estate which included the bourgeoisie as well as professionals, artisans, and peasants
Estates General
Third Estate
National Assembly
Real Estate
What occurred first in history?
The National Assembly is created
The Reign of Terror
The Storming of Bastille
Napoleon comes into power
What occurred second in history?
Napoleon comes into power
The Storming of Bastille
The National Assembly is created
The Reign of Terror
What occurred Third in history?
The Storming of Bastille
Napoleon comes into power
The National Assembly is created
The Reign of Terror
What occurred Fourth in history?
The Storming of Bastille
The Reign of Terror
Napoleon comes into power
The National Assembly is created
In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France.......
a republic
bankrupt
dissolved
According to the picture above, what happened on July 14th, Bastille Day in France?
Robespierre was executed by guillotine.
French women marched all the way to Versailles to protest for bread.
A mob stormed a prison starting the French Revolution.
Which of the following reasons was why the guillotine was used during French Revolution executions?
Was the most painful form of execution
They could execute many people in a short amount of time
A humane way of execution
Belief in the ideas of _______________________________and discontent within the Third Estate were causes of the French Revolution.
Renaissance
Spanish Inquisition
Enlightenment
Catholic Reformation
Maximillian Robespierre and the Jacobins are best known for
Instituting the Reign of Terror
Protecting freedom of religion
Supporting the reign of King Louis XVI
The philosophical movement of the 18th Century, characterized by the belief in human reason
nationalism
national assembly
enlightenment
bastille
Having the extreme spirit that is common within a nation.
nationalism
patriotism
national assembly
old regime
A device with a huge razor-sharp blade that was used for punishment in beheading people.
old regime
bastille
emigres
guillotine
Females protest at Versailles for human rights
emigres
women's march
cahiers
estates-general
Nomadic, aristrocratic, social, and political system established in the kingdom of France from the 15th Century to the late 18th Century, where all people were subjects to the King of France.
Estates-General
Old Regime
National Assembly
Emigres
A report or memorial concerning policy, especially that of a parliamentary body.
Cahiers
Emigres
Women's March
Nationalism
The legislative body of France of 1789, which represent the three estates of the realm.
national assembly
estates-general
Old Regime
Bastille
The elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution, 1789-1791, replaced by the New legislative.
Reign of Terror
Old Regime
National Assembly
Cahiers
A fortress in Paris, which became a state prison of France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
bastille
guillotine
reign of terror
The Directory
A period of remorseless bloodshed during the French Revolution.
guillotine
enlightenment
national assembly
reign of terror
The body of five directories forming the executive power of France in 1795 to 1799.
Tennis Court Oath
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Directory
deficit spending
The basic principle of government spending in excess (greater) than their income, thus creating debt.
deficit spending
emigres
cahiers
The Directory
The basic principle that delcares all men are born free and remain free with equal rights.
Women's March
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Tennis Court Oath
Estates-General En Fuego
The Frenchmen, mostly aristocrats, who fled France in 1789 during the French Revolution
Cahiers
Old Regime
National Assembly
Emigres
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution, which received its name from where they conducted the act.
Tennis Court Oath
Women's March
The Directory
Old Regime
This is celebrated on July 14, which marks the fall of French Tyranny in 1789 when the people stormed the French prison.
Women's March
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Bastille Day
Reign of Terror
What are the three French classes?
First class
Real Estate
2nd Class
3rd class
The Clergy were considered to be apart of which class?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Most of the French population belonged to the
1st estate
3rd Estate
2nd Estate
Which French social class paid the majority of taxes?
Clergy
The rich
nobility
peasants
The women of France stormed what building demanding bread to feed their families?
The Eiffel Tower
Versailles
Bastille
Burke Toney
Social conditions where the background to the French Revolution. Which factors were an important part of the French uprising?
Famine
unemployment
rising prices
All of the choices
People in Paris went to a hospital housing French soilders looking for ammunition. They realized none were there and turned to storming which French fortress?
Bastille
Versailles
National Assembly
The radical and violent stages of the French Revolution is reffered to as the
Starving time
Regin if Terror
American Revolution
Bastille Day
Louis XIV was informed that he could no longer trust his royal troops and some even joined storming the Bastille.
true
false
The first Esate was the clergy who owned close to 10 percent of the land?
true
false
The French Revolution had ideas that came from
(Pick 2)
The American Revolution
The Enlightenment
Louis XIV
The National Assembly
Some of the causes of France being in debt was because of
Giving financial aid to the American colonies
The overspending by the King on luxuries
Bad harvest and famine
unemployment
All of the choices
Estate
The Third Estate was made up of these people.
clergy
nobles
common people
kings and queens
What cause of the French Revolution is represented by this image?
Weak leadership of the monarchy
Unequal social class system
Economic crisis
Inspiration from the Enlightenment
Which event is associated with this image?
Reign of Terror
Meeting of the Estates General
Rise of Napoleon
Storming of the Bastille
Who came to power in France at the end of the French Revolution?
Napoleon
Louis XIV
Robespierre
Louis XVI
Belief in the ideas of the Enlightenment and discontent within the Third Estate were causes of the
French Revolution
Counter Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Spanish Reconquista
The French Revolution started with the storming of the:
Bastille
White House
Palace
Guillotine
The Third Estate was made up of these people.
clergy
nobles
common people
kings and queens
Which estate in France was made up of the clergy and the Church?
the third estate
the second estate
the first estate
the final estate
Which estate was primarily made up of nobles that wanted to keep or extend their powers?
the first estate
the final estate
the second estate
the third estate
What estate was primarily made up of middle class people and peasants that made up most of the population of France and paid all the taxes?
the first estate
the second estate
the third estate
the final estate
What is the idea of the gov. spending more money than it is taking in?
inflation
deficit spending
national debt
defense spending
What was rising in price in France that was primarily the cause for making things worse at a quicker pace?
weaponry
clothing
food
houses
Why did the nobles call for the Estate General for the first time in nearly 200 years?
they wanted to form a treaty with the third estate
they wanted to keep, secure, and extend their power
they wanted to go to war with England
they wanted to excommunicate various bishops
After being outvoted many times in the past, the third estate established the ________ to write a constitution and create more fair laws.
National Assembly
Estate General
Parliament
Inquisition
The French people, especially the middle class, were inspired by the Enlightenment thinkers and what recent contemporary event?
the War of 1812
the 7 Years War
the Russian Revolution
the American Revolution
What was the event that was the first major step in the French Revolution?
the fighting in Normandy
the riots of Versailles
the storming of the Bastille
the occupation of the Eiffel Tower
Before the French Revolution, why did the representatives of the Third Estate form the National Assembly?
voting in the Estates General was not fair
the king had ordered them to do so
they wanted an end to the Reign of Terror
they demanded that the king be put on trial and executed
This person claimed it was possible to build a "republic of virtue". He also lead the Reign of Terror.
Napoleon
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
The Third Estate was made up of these people.
clergy
nobles
common people
kings and queens
Who came to power in France at the end of the French Revolution?
Napoleon
Louis XIV
Robespierre
Louis XVI
The French Revolution started with the storming of the:
Bastille
White House
Palace
Guillotine
Before the French Revolution, the people of France were divided into three estates based mainly on their...
education level
geographic region
social class
religious beliefs
This man was King of France during the Revolution.
Louis the 14th
Napolean
Louis the 16th
King George the 2nd
How many groups were there represented at the Estates General?
2
4
3
5
What kind of government was France prior to the revolution?
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Democracy
Socialist
This woman became Queen of France during the revolution.
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
Queen Elizabeth the 2nd
Marie Antoinette
At the first meeting of the Estates General in 170 years, the three estates promised to not disband until they had a new constitution better representing the Third Estate. What was it called
The Oath Keepers
The Tennis Court Oath
The Preamble
The Declaration of Independence
After the beginning of the French Revolution, the French went to war with which foreign country (Marie Antoinette's families home)?
Britiain
Ottoman Empire
Japan
Austro-Hungary
