Ch. 3.1 The French Revolution Begins

Question 1

estate

Answer 1

status groups (in France there were three: 1st Estate-clergy, 2nd Estate-nobles, 3rd Estate-bourgeoisie+peasants)

Question 2

taille

Answer 2

chief tax. paid all by 3rd Estate

Question 3

bourgeoisie

Answer 3

middle class. made of merchants, bankers, manufacturers, professionals (lawyers, public officials…)

Question 4

sans-culottes

Answer 4

members of Paris Commune. ordinary patriots without fine clothes. means “without breeches”

Question 5

(a) consumer

Answer 5

“In the 1700s, the price of CONSUMER goods rose much faster than wages.”

Question 6

(a) exclusion

Answer 6

“One woman writer, Olympe de Gouges, refused to accept this EXCLUSION of women from political rights.”

Question 7

(p) Louis XVI

Answer 7

French absolute monarch. disliked by bourgeoisie and nobles.

Question 8

(p) Tennis Court Oath

Answer 8

3rd Estate makes an oath swearing to continue to meet until a new constitution is created

Question 9

(p) Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Answer 9

adopted Aug. 26, 1789 by National Assembly. proclaim all men’s freedom and equality, etc.

Question 10

(p) Olympe de Gouges

Answer 10

woman writer. feminist. created Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.

Question 11

(pl) Versailles

Answer 11

meeting of Estates-General took place here on May 1789

Question 12

(pl) Paris

Answer 12

city with the Bastille (prison and armory). July 14, 1789 angry workers stormed the Bastille

Question 13

(pl) Austria

Answer 13

threaten to use force to restore Louis XVI to power

Question 14

(pl) Prussia

Answer 14

threaten to use force to restore Louis XVI to power