French Revolution

Question 1

Who was King during the French Revolution?

Answer 1

Louie the 16th/ XVI

Question 2

Who made up the First Estate

Answer 2

The Clurgy/church

Question 3

Who made up the Second Estate

Answer 3

The Nobility

Question 4

Who made up the Third Estate

Answer 4

Bourguase, Workers and Peasants

Question 5

What group in the Third Estate made up 80% of the French population?

Answer 5

Peasants

Question 6

Who committed the Reign of Terror in France?

Answer 6

Comitte of public safety/Robespeirre

Question 7

What tyrant came to power in France as a result of the revolution and France’s
war against 5 other European countries?

Answer 7

Napoleon

Question 8

What document was created during the French Revolution that borrows heavily
from the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 8

The declaration of the rights of man

Question 9

7. What are the three key ideas of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

Answer 9

Natural rights, Equal Tax, Social contract

Question 10

What two political revolutions occurred because of the influence of the Scientific
Revolution and Enlightenment?

Answer 10

French and American

Question 11

Which estate paid the most in taxes and had the fewest rights under the Old
Regime?

Answer 11

Third estate

Question 12

When did the French Revolution begin and end?

Answer 12

1789-1815

Question 13

During what Battle did the British finally defeat Napoleon and end the French
Empire of 1815?

Answer 13

The Battle of Waterloo

Question 14

What country in Eastern Europe lacked a strong merchant class and still had
absolute monarchs as late as 1915 CE?

Answer 14

Russia

Question 15

What word means when the people have the right to change their government if it
violates their rights?

Answer 15

Social Contract

Question 15

What country in Europe had a strong merchant class and as a result overthrew their absolute monarch, James II, in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution and established the first limited monarchy in Western Europe?

Answer 15

Great brittain

Question 16

In what country in the Caribbean did slaves revolt because they were inspired by
the events in France?

Answer 16

Hatie

Question 17

What two countries in South America had revolutions inspired by the French` Revolution?

Answer 17

Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico

Question 18

Who led the only successful slave revolt in history in the French colony of Saint
Domingue in 1801?

Answer 18

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Question 19

Which 19 th century ideology – Conservatism or Liberalism – liked the ideas of the
Enlightenment, supported written constitutions, and the freedom of the individual? Its most well known supporter was John Stuart Mill in his book On Liberty.

Answer 19

Libralism

Question 20

At what conference did conservative elements in Europe establish a balance of
power as a bulwark against future radical revolutions like the French Revolution?

Answer 20

Confrence of Viena

Question 21

20. Identify three conditions that usually contribute to a revolution.

Answer 21

lots of wealth inequality, corrupt government, tyrany

Question 22

Which 19th century ideology (set of beliefs) arose in reaction against the radicalism of American and French Revolutions – Conservatism or Liberalism? Its most well known supporter was Edmund Burke.

Answer 22

Conservatives

Question 23

Who did not achieve citizenship as a result of the French Revolution?

Answer 23

Women and slaves