French Revolution

Question 1

When did the revolution begin?

Answer 1

1879

Question 2

Who were the King and Queen at the time of the revolution?

Answer 2

King Louis XVI

Queen Marie Antoinette

Question 3

Monarch

Answer 3

Ruler of a country

Question 4

Peasant

Answer 4

Labour - Poorest person

Question 5

Nobles

Answer 5

Upper-class, aristocrats

Question 6

Clergy

Answer 6

People who worked in the church

Question 7

What is the definition of a revolution?

Answer 7

A big change over a small period of time

Question 8

What was the Estates general?

Answer 8

It was a government of sorts

Question 9

What are the three states?

Answer 9

– Clergy
– Nobles
– Commons

Question 10

What is a storming?

Answer 10

Where a lot of people attack something all at once; they charge at it and destroyed to get in

Question 11

What did the Commons Estate to do?

Answer 11

They broke away from the Estates general and went to the tennis courts at Versailles. They formed a new government called “National Assembly”

Question 12

When did the storming of the Bastille take place?

Answer 12

July 14, 1879

Question 13

Why did the people storm Bastille?

Answer 13

They stormed the Bastille because:
– It had an armoury full of weapons that the peasants could use
– Bastille Prisin was a symbol of the king and so they decided to destroy it

Question 14

What did the peasants do to the Governor at Bastille?

Answer 14

They beheaded him

Question 15

What was the difference between taxes of a peasant and a noble man?

Answer 15

Peasants had to pay tax to the king and the church whilst nobleman got away with tax evasion and some didn’t even have to pay tax!

Question 16

What was the difference between work of a present and work of a nobleman?

Answer 16

Peasants had to do lots of hard work and got paid very little whereas, nobleman had to do very little work and got paid a lot of money

Question 17

What was the difference between the homes of a peasant and that of a nobleman?

Answer 17

Peasants had very crowded, small and worn out houses (some lived in small apartments with big families) and nobleman lived in big mansions filled with riches and golds

Question 18

What was the rain of terror?

Answer 18

All over France anyone suspected of being an enemy of the revolution were either imprisoned deported or executed. Over 40,000 people were executed.

Question 19

Who led the reign of terror?

Answer 19

Maximilian Robespierre - a trained lawyer

Question 20

How did the reign of terror end?

Answer 20

People started realising that the terror was getting out of control and Robespierre was to blame. He was executed after a failed suicide.

Question 21

How are people executed?

Answer 21

They were executed using a guillotine

Question 22

What class of people were killed the most?

Answer 22

The Working Class

Question 23

What classes of people were killed?

Answer 23

The Nobles 
The Clergy
The Upper/ Lower Middle Class
The Working Class
The Peasants