Chapter 18 - The French Revolution

Question 1

What are the three estates in Pre-Revolutionary France?

Answer 1

First-clergy, 10% of land,
Second-royalty, 20% of land,
Third-everyone else, 70% of land, 100% of taxes

Question 2

What is the result of the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer 2

law changes

Question 3

What does the Civil Constitution of the Clergy say?

Answer 3

some control over religion, funding education/charitable works

Question 4

How did the National Convention attempt to create a new order?

Answer 4

new constitution

Question 5

What does the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaim?

Answer 5

born and remain free/equal rights

Question 6

What were some of the important causes of the French Revolution?

Answer 6

estates, absolutism, enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and American Revolution

Question 7

Who was Maximilien Robespierre?

Answer 7

leader of the French Revolution, started reign of terror

Question 8

What were the 3 major parts of Napolean’s Grand Empire?

Answer 8

Allied, French, Dependant

Question 9

How did one get promoted in Napolean’s new government?

Answer 9

Based on number of achievements