French Revolution

Question 1

What is the second estate?

Answer 1

The Second Estate were nobles that were provided with special privileges like being able to legally avoid taxes.

Question 2

what is the first estate

Answer 2

The Clergymen, Regarded as the highest in society because at the time religion was valued more than most other things.

Question 3

what is the third estate

Answer 3

The commoners of France, worth 96% of the population but had to pay more taxes then the other 2 estates. And they didn’t have as many rights as these other 2 estates.

Question 4

What is the Third Estate?

Answer 4

The 3rd Estate was commoners (98% of the population, the majority of people, the most worked + taxed)

Question 5

How did the French Revolution start?

Answer 5

Storming of the Bastille (When revolutionaries stormed a prison called the Bastille)

Question 6

Who was the last king of France before the fall of monarchy

Answer 6

Louis XVI

Question 7

Marie Antoinette

Answer 7

Marie was a Austrian who left for France. She was heavily obsessed with expensive dresses and…Cake. She was one of the biggest money spenders in the nation
She was also Queen of England(the last one before the French Revolution)

Question 8

What is the national assembly

Answer 8

the national assembly chooses the president and passes laws and make sure the members of the executive perform their work correctly