French Revolution

Question 1

Describe the life of French peasants

Answer 1

Unpleasant and very taxing in physical labour. They had minimal resources and high taxes and feudal dues.

Question 2

How much was the French government spending in 1786?

Answer 2

633.1 million livers

Question 3

What was the French governments income in 1786?

Answer 3

471.6 millions livers

Question 4

What did the French government spend the most money on in 1786?

Answer 4

Interest payments and debts at 261.1 millions livers followed by 107.1 million livers spent on the army

Question 5

Only 14.9 million livers was spent on public works in 1786. What does this show?

Answer 5

It shows that the government was disregarding the public?

Question 6

Who said the end justifies the means?

Answer 6

Machiavelli

Question 7

What branch of government passed laws?

Answer 7

Executive

Question 8

Who defeated Napoleon are where?

Answer 8

Wellington in Waterloo

Question 9

What is revolution?

Answer 9

Form of massive social change.

Question 10

What does government ensure?

Answer 10

Law
Order
Political decision making

Question 11

What is state of nature?

Answer 11

Human existence without political organization/government

Question 12

Who was Robespierre?

Answer 12

The greatest of the leaders of the French Revolution. It was under him that the reign of terror reached its height.

Question 13

What happened on June 20, 1789?

Answer 13

Members of the third estate met at a tennis court and swore an oath to not disband until France had a constitution.

Question 14

Who was Marat?

Answer 14

He was a radical leader who helped instigate the terror. He was assassinated by a Girodin sympathizer in July 1793.

Question 15

Who killed Marat?

Answer 15

Corday

Question 16

What’s Bastille?

Answer 16

A famous prison stormed by the Paris nob on July 14 1789.

Question 17

Who believed in multiple government branches?

Answer 17

Montesquieu

Question 18

Aristocrat who emerged as a powerful leader of the third estate in 1789. He was an advocate of constitutional monarchy.

Answer 18

Mirabeau

Question 19

Site of a French victory over Prussia on September 20 1792. It inspired the French to spread the revolution throughout France.

Answer 19

Valmy

Question 20

Who were the girodins?

Answer 20

They were a group of politicians although opposed to terrify methods, advocated with the enemies of France as a means of uniting the country.

Question 21

Who was Diderot?

Answer 21

Leader of the encyclopedists he and his contemporaries were strong critics of the existing French system.

Question 22

Who was Voltaire?

Answer 22

One of the stone fast critics if the French government and church

Question 23

What is the reign of terror?

Answer 23

The period following Louis’s evacuation in the years 1793-94. Thousands of people suspected of anti-revlutionary activities or of helping France enemies were sen to the guillotine.

Question 24

Who wanted a republic?

Answer 24

Jacobins

Question 25

What’s a social contract?

Answer 25

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.

Question 26

Why were people criticizing the nobility king and clergy?

Answer 26

Nobility was taxing heavily and feudal dues

King had absolute power meaning no freedom for the people

Clergy more incomes than other groups