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Chapter 18. The French Revolution. When did the French Revolution take place? 1776 1769 1779 1789. Answer: d; 1789. Three orders in which France’s population had been divided since the Middle Ages. The Three Estates. The First Estate consisted of this group. The clergy.
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Chapter 18 The French Revolution
When did the French Revolution take place? 1776 1769 1779 1789
Three orders in which France’s population had been divided since the Middle Ages.
Which of the following was not part of the Third Estate? • Skilled craftspeople • Shopkeepers • Bourgeoisie • Nobles • Bankers • industrialists
If social conditions formed the long-range background to the French Revolution, what was the immediate cause?
The immediate cause of the revolution was the financial crisis.
The French parliament, which had not been called since 1614, was called this.
Which of the following was not desire of the Third Estate? • To abolish the monarchy. • To set up a constitutional government that would abolish the tax exemptions. • For each deputy of the Estates General to have one vote. • All of the above were wishes of the Third Estate.
When the king declared that he was in favor of the current system of voting, members of the Third Estate called itself a National Assembly and decided to draft a(n)_________________.
When members of the Third Estate arrived at the meeting, they found the doors locked. Where did they meet instead?
The promise made by the National Assembly to meet until they had drafted a French constitution was called the ____________ __________Oath.
When the king threatened to use force against the Third Estate, it was the common people who saved the Third Estate from the king’s forces. On July 14, 1789, what structure was taken down brick by brick when a mob of Parisians rushed to Paris?
What was the Bastille? • A tennis court • An armory and prison • Louis’ palace • A restaurant
What was the Great Fear? • A plague that swept across France in the late 1700s. • A period of panic that spread through France in the summer of the revolution. • When Napoleon states a coup d’etat • None of the above
The Great Fear was (b) a period of panic that spread through France in the summer of the revolution.
Aristocratic privileges, such as payment of fees for the use of village facilities and contributions to the clergy.
This document was adopted by the National Assembly on August 26, 1789. It was inspired by the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the English Bill of Rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
When women were excluded from “political rights and functions”, she penned a Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen.
What group led a demonstration at the King’s palace on October 5, 1789?
Women “We are bringing back the baker, the baker’s wife, and the baker’s boy”
A new constitution was drafted in 1791. Under this constitution, all males had the same rights, but could all men vote?
No, only those men who paid a specific amount in taxes could vote.
When Louis XVI began to lose power, Austria and ______________threatened to use force to restore his power. Prussia France Spain Germany
Who seized political power from the Legislative Assembly? National Assembly Henry VIII Paris Commune Marie Antoinette
The term san-culottes, meaning “without breeches,” implied that the members of this political group were Women, because they wore skirts. Very poor and could not afford pants. Pacifists who did not use guns. Ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
