WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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 leader of the Reign of Terror. He and the Jacobins started the Reign of Terror.
Robespierre
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinnette
Estates General
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
The symbol of terror during the French Revolution, used to execute traitors to the revolution.
Guillotine
Robespierre
The Jacobins
The Bastille
Third Estate members vowed to never give up until a constitution was written.
Tennis Court Oath
Estates General
Estates System
Guillotine
The wife of Louis XVI
Marie Anntoinnette
Robespierre
The Bastille
Lady Gaga
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.
What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
Robespierre was executed by the guillotine.
French women marched all the way to Versailles.
A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.
All of the above are true.
The Reign of Terror ended with the beheading of which well-known revolutionary?
Napoleon Bonaparte
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
The Enlightenment and American Revolution influenced the French Revolution.
True
False
Who surrounded the palace and forced Louis XVI to leave Versailles and return to Paris?
nobles demanding greater privileges
women demanding bread
soldiers demanding higher wages
peasants demanding voting rights
When the Third Estate rebelled, the created what group?
National Assembly
French Parliament
Congress of France
Directory
In 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were
saved from the Robespierre.
executed.
deported to England.
returned to the throne.
