French Revolution

Question 1

Who was the King of France in 1789

Answer 1

Louis XVI

Question 2

Who belonged to the 1st Estate

Answer 2

Members of the clergy

Question 3

Who belonged to the 2nd Estate

Answer 3

Rich nobles, and government officials

Question 4

What three groups made up the 3rd Estate

Answer 4

The bourgeoisie, city workers, peasants

Question 5

97% of the population belonged to which Estate

Answer 5

The Third Estate

Question 6

Members of which Estate paid almost all of the taxes

Answer 6

The Third Estate

Question 7

Why did Louis XVI call a meeting of the Estates General

Answer 7

He wanted to impose a tax on the Second Estate

Question 8

How many years had it been since the Estates General had been called

Answer 8

175 years

Question 9

Louis XVI’s calling of mercenary troops led to a widespread reaction known as

Answer 9

the great fear

Question 10

What was the Tennis Court Oath

Answer 10

the pledge to draw up a new constitution for France

Question 11

What happened on July 14, 1789

Answer 11

a mob attacks the Bastille in search of gunpowder

Question 12

people who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the Peasant uprisings during the french revolution

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Emigre

Question 13

One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution

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Estate

Question 14

Estates General

Answer 14

An assembly of representatives from all three estates or social classes, in france

Question 15

A wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille

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Great Fear

Question 16

the political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution

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Old Regime

Question 17

a machine for beheading people used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

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Guillotine

Question 18

a radical political organization in the French Government

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Jacobin

Question 19

a group of soldiers who will work for any country or employer than will pay them

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Mercenary Army

Question 20

the period from 1793-1794 when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed

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Reign of Terror

Question 21

a radical group made up of Parisian wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in government, lower prices and an end to food shortages

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San Culotte

Question 22

a church tax, normally one tenth of a family’s income

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Tithe

Question 23

Statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by National Assembly

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Declaration of RIghts of a man

Question 24

Slogan for members of the French Revolution

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Question 25

Device used as a means of execution during the French Revolution

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Guillotine

Question 26

Radical political organization that in September 1792 abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic

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Jacboins

Question 27

Became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety and ruled France virtually as a dictator

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Robespierre

Question 28

Period of time during which Maximilien Robespierre governed France

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Reign of Terror

Question 29

Executive body created in 1795 as part of a new plan of government

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