CHAPTER 2

Question 1

FRENCH REV: HISTORICAL FACTORS

Answer 1

the bourgeoisie resented its exclusion from political power and positions of honour; (2) the peasants were acutely aware of their situation and were less and less willing to support

Question 2

FRENCH REV: SOCIAL FACTORS

Answer 2

Decree of the National Assembly Abolishing the Feudal System (11 August 1789)
Abolition of Nobility.
Cahiers—A Parish Cahier.
Three Cahiers from Orléans.
Cahiers from Rural Districts: Attack on Seigneurial Dues.
Beware the Wealthy Bourgeoisie.
Populace Awake.
Le Chapelier Law.

Question 3

FRENCH REV: ECONOMIC FACTORS

Answer 3

Taxes were high and so were prices, but the wages were low. Unable to provide for their families the lower classes of France were also in an economical crisis, which was one of the things that drove them to revolt. Another major cause to the French Revolution was Politics.

Question 4

FRENCH REV: GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS

Answer 4

People were about to erupt with rage because at the same time King Louis XVI was demanding common people to pay higher taxes, large parts of France were suffering from severe weather. In 1788 to 1789 the winter was bitterly cold and piles of snow blocked roads and it made trade and travel impossible.

Question 5

FRENCH REV: POLITICAL FACTORS

Answer 5

The political causes of the French revolution included the autocratic monarchy, bankruptcy and extravagant spending of royals.

Question 6

FRENCH REV: STEPS OF THE REVOLUTION

Answer 6

Meeting of the Estates-General (1789)
Tennis Court Oath (1789)
Storming of the Bastille (1789)
The Great Fear (1789)
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Women's March on Versailles (1789)
Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)
Flight of Royal Family to Varennes (1791)

Question 7

FRENCH REV: ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

Answer 7

The next major cause of the French Revolution was the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI and resentment that French citizens felt towards the authority of the king. An absolute monarchy is a form of government that involved society being ruled over by an all-powerful king or queen.

Question 8

FRENCH REV: FEUDAL SYSTEM

Answer 8

Feudalism(feudal system) was common in France before the French revolution. The system consisted of the granting of land for return for military services. In a feudal system, a peasant or worker received a piece of land in return for serving a lord or king, especially during times of war.

Question 9

FRENCH REV: BOURGEOISIE

Answer 9

In the nineteenth century, most notably in the work of Karl Marx and other socialist writers, the French Revolution was described as a bourgeois revolution in which a capitalist bourgeoisie overthrew the feudal aristocracy in order to remake society according to capitalist interests and values, thereby paving the way

Question 10

FRENCH REV: TOOLS AND SYMBOLS

Answer 10

Fasces.
Tricolore cockade.
Liberty cap.
Clothing.
Liberty Tree.
The Elephant of the Bastille and the July Column.
Hercules.
La Marseillaise.

Question 11

FRENCH REV: ROBESPIERRE

Answer 11

Maximilien Robespierre was a radical democrat and key figure in the French Revolution of 1789. Robespierre briefly presided over the influential Jacobin Club, a political club based in Paris. He also served as president of the National Convention and on the Committee of Public Safety.

Question 12

FRENCH REV: MONACH, KING QUEEN

Answer 12

What happened to the king and queen during the French Revolution?
In 1789, food shortages and economic crises led to the outbreak of the French Revolution. King Louis and his queen, Mary-Antoinette, were imprisoned in August 1792, and in September the monarchy was abolished.

Question 13

FRENCH REV: THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Answer 13

The French Revolution of 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to remake society along rational lines, but it devolved into bloody terror that showed the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise of Napoleon.

Question 14

FRENCH REV: PHILOSOPHERS

Answer 14

Who were the philosophers of the French Revolution?

Three famous Philosophers in France during French revolution are Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu.

Question 15

FRENCH REV: THE ESTATE GENERAL

Answer 15

Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolution monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy (First Estate) and nobility (Second Estate)—which were privileged minorities

Question 16

FRENCH REV: THE TENNIS COURT OATH

Answer 16

Tennis Court Oath, French Serment du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Question 17

FRENCH REV: NATONAL ASSEMBLY

Answer 17

The National Assembly existed from June 13, 1789 to July 9, 1789. It was a revolutionary assembly formed by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General. This Assembly called themselves the “National Assembly” since they represented at least 96% of the nation.

Question 18

FRENCH REV: DECLERATION OF RIGHTS OF MAN

Answer 18

What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man French Revolution?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed by France’s National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution that granted civil rights to some commoners, although it excluded a significant segment of the French population.

Question 19

FRENCH REV: BASTILLE

Answer 19

What was the Bastille during the French Revolution?
On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

Question 20

FRENCH REV: GUILLOTINE

Answer 20

What was the guillotine in the French Revolution?
Copyright Royal Museums Greenwich. The guillotine is best known as a method of executing those condemned to death during the French Revolution. Although it delivered a grisly end – by slicing off its victim’s head, death by guillotine was quick and humane.

Question 21

FRENCH REV: REIGN OF TERROR

Answer 21

The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. Between Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France’s revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.

Question 22

FRENCH REV: NAPOLEON