WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
The pre-revolution system that divided France into three unequal estates know as the
Bourgeoisie
Old Regime
Class System
Estates- General
The estate that was forced to carry all of the burden by paying taxes and did not receive any privileges
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Bourgeoisie
Once France ran out of money and its economy collapsed, who did Louis XVI attempt to tac and what event did it lead to?
Catholic Church, Concordat
Second Estate, Estates-General
Peasants, Great Fear
Jacobins, Reign of Terror
How did King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette make the 1789 economic situation of France worse?
Loaning Austria too much money
Excessive spending
Closing French Banks
Printing too much money
Where did the delegates of the Estates-General have their meeting?
Versailles Palace
Tuileries Palace
Bastille Prison
Elba
The promise of the National Assembly to stay at Versailles and draft a new constitution was known as the
Committee of Public Safety
Peasant Act
Tennis Court Oath
Reign of Terror
Before the revolution in France, members of the Third Estate had
a smaller tax burden than the other estates
greater political influence than the clergy
a voice in government equal to that of the First and Second Estates
a high tax burden and little political power
Commoners-the bourgeoisie, professionals, peasants, and urban populace-made up which estate in France?
1st
2nd
3rd
In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France
dissolved.
bankrupt.
a nation.
a republic.
In 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were
saved from the Robespierre.
executed.
deported to England.
returned to the throne.
Which document declared that all men are free and equal?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Constitution of 1791
The Concordat of Worms
The ___ made up roughly 97% of the French population.
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Church officials
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.
