Exam

Question 1

Taille

Answer 1

A sort of income tax

Question 2

Seigneurial tax

Answer 2

Paid to local landlord, known as feudal dues.e.g. Using the mill

Question 3

Corvée

Answer 3

For a few days each year they would work in the upkeep of the roads

Question 4

Tithe

Answer 4

10% of all income paid to the church

Question 5

Gabelle

Answer 5

A tax on salt

Question 6

Aide

Answer 6

Tax for wine

Question 7

All taxes

Answer 7

Taille,seigneurial,Corvée,tithe,gabelle, aide

Question 8

Three slogans

Answer 8

Liberté
Fraternité
Egalité

Question 9

First estate

Answer 9

Clergy
Archbishops etc.
Payed no taxes
Received tithe
400,000 2%

Question 10

Second estate

Answer 10

Nobles
Wealth and power
No taxes
150,000 1%

Question 11

Third estate

Answer 11

Middle-class
Peasants
Payed taxes
No opinion on how the country was ran
25 million 97%

Question 12

England in 1485

Answer 12

King’s power has decreased
Barons have private armies,castles canons
Poverty and hunger
Conflict and arguing

Question 13

Henry VII

Answer 13

Married Elizabeth of York 
Fining barons with morton's fork
Star chamber
Took nobles' canons, private armies, castles
Married his family members to enemies

Question 14

Henry VIII problems

Answer 14

Wanted a son
Wanted power
Needed money

Question 15

Henry VIII solutions

Answer 15

Made himself head of English church
Gave himself a divorce
Eliminated any opposition
Took over the monasteries

Question 16

Edward VI

Answer 16

He was only 9 and his advisors were Protestant so he made England Protestant and took all decorations from the churches

Question 17

Mary

Answer 17

She made England Catholic again. Chopped over 284 Protestant people’s heads and married to Philip II of Spain

Question 18

Elisabeth

Answer 18

Considered the most successful monarch in England’s history. She sat on the fence and eliminated extremists

Question 19

Elizabeth’s tips

Answer 19

Don't marry
Don't marry a foreigner
Deal ruthlessly with extremist
Loyal
Don't get mixed up in other people's fights

Question 20

What is revolution

Answer 20

A radical change which is normally to overthrow the governor and have power. Sometimes it is violent and long.

Question 21

4 key factors which made the revolution happen

Answer 21

Louis was a weak King
They took ideas from other countries
People were poor
France was unfair

Question 22

Louis was a weak King

Answer 22

He didn’t tell his wife to stop spending money
Didn’t get rid of his terrible advisers
Didn’t give a strong lead to his country

Question 23

France was unfair

Answer 23

The nobles and church didn’t have to pay tax but the peasants did

Question 24

People were poor

Answer 24

Droughts
Food shortages
High taxes

Question 25

Got ideas from other countries

Answer 25

Wanted power and a say in how their country was ran
British made their monarchs have little power
America changed the way their country was ran

Question 26

What is a cahier de doléances

Answer 26

A book with lists of complaints from all the French. More than 25,000 were made

Question 27

Countdown to revolution

Answer 27

The assembly of notables: 1786, they tried to make a tax that everyone paid but was rejected
Louis agreed to call a parliament: 1788 called parliament
The Estates-general meet :1789, 1 estate;300
2 estate, 291 3; 610
The 3 estate defies the King: called themselves National Assembly and said they ruled. They were locked out of the hall but stayed in a tennis court

Question 28

March to Versailles

Answer 28

There were food shortages. The women from Paris set off to Versailles to protest to the King because they wanted bread and took him as a ‘guest’ in the Tuileries palace