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WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The 1st Estate represents which of the following people?
Peasants
Nobles
Clergy
Royalty
The king
What happened when the 3rd Estate was blocked from the Estates-General?
They went home and devised a plan of attack.
They broke down the door and attacked the 1st and 2nd Estates.
They went to the tennis court and formed the National Assembly.
They immediately killed the king and began the Reign of Terror.
____ was the wife of Louis XVI who was also executed via the Guillotine.
Isabel I
Catherine the Great
Marie Antoinette
Elizabeth I
The ____ was a famous fort/prison that was stormed, initiating the start of the French Revolution.
Port of France
Bastille
Paris jailhouse
Cathedral of Notre Dame
France under Louis XVI was highly invested in foreign wars, one of which was ____.
the Franco-Prussian war
the Mexican-American war
the American Revolution
the Bolshevik Revolution
____ was a symbol of the excess and gluttony of the French monarchy.
The Palace of Versailles
Eiffel Tower
The Bastille
Champs-Élysées
What happened to Louis XVI as a result of the French Revolution?
He was convicted of espionage and forced to serve a life sentence.
He was convicted of treason and exiled to Austria.
He was convicted of terrorism and forced to serve in the army.
He was convicted of treason and killed on the Guillotine.
Which of the following is a social cause of the French Revolution?
Poor harvests.
Financial burden.
The feudal system gave the lower class no power or authority in society.
Louis XVI being a weak, ineffective ruler.
The 2nd Estate represents which of the following?
Peasants
Nobles
Clergy
Royalty
What was the radical group that was led by Robespierre and began the Reign of Terror?
The 2nd Estate
The Bourgeoisie
The Jacobins
The National Assembly
Which of the following was a political cause of the French Revolution?
Poor harvests
Financial hardships
Louis XVI being a weak and ineffective ruler
Foreign affairs
The 1st Estate represented which of the following people?
Peasants
Nobles
Clergy (the Church)
Royalty
All of the following are economic causes of the French Revolution EXCEPT ____.
poor harvests
war debts
the estate system
unnecessary, excessive taxation
Commoners and peasants felt as though the estate system represented relics of ____.
feudalism
capitalism
mercantilism
colonialism
Which of the following were one of the reasons the 3rd Estate walked out of the Estates-General?
They wanted every male citizen to have one vote, as opposed to each Estate having one vote.
They wanted to form a new system of government where peasants and commoners had a greater voice.
They grew tired of paying the majority of society's taxes.
All of the above.
In 1791, a(n) ____ was formed, significantly limiting the power of the king.
absolute monarchy
republic
constitutional monarchy
democracy
In 1791, the National Assembly became known as the ____.
National Convention
Legislative Assembly
Committee of Public Safety
Jacobins
Robespierre created the ____ in order to protect the spirit of the French Revolution.
National Convention
National Assembly
Tennis Court Agreement
Committee of Public Safety
To ____, terror was nothing more than cold, swift justice.
the 1st Estate
Louis XVI
Robespierre
Marie Antoinette
At the end of the French Revolution, France became known as a ____.
democracy
monarchy
republic
religious oligarchy
