French Revolution fact test

Question 1

1.What happened on July 14th 1789?

Answer 1

Storming of the Bastille

Question 2

2.What was the name of the French king’s wife?

Answer 2

Marie Antoinette

Question 3

3.What nationality was the French king’s wife?

Answer 3

Austrian

Question 4

4.How many estates were in the Estates-General?

Answer 4

3

Question 5

5.What was the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer 5

The oath taken that the 3rd estate would set up a national assembly

Question 6

6.When was the Tennis Court Oath taken?

Answer 6

20th June 1789

Question 7

7.What were 2 of the causes of the French Revolution?

Answer 7

taxation of the 3rd estate, absolute monarch, poverty, bad harvests, national debt, lavish lifestyle of the nobility

Question 8

8.What was the name of the radical Jacobin who presided over the Reign of Terror?

Answer 8

Robespierre

Question 9

9.Which revolutionary was murdered whilst in the bath?

Answer 9

Marat

Question 10

10.What is the origin of right and left wing?

Answer 10

Where the radicals and moderates sat in the National Assembly

Question 11

11.Where did the King of France reside?

Answer 11

Palace of Versailles

Question 12

12.Which Whig politician spoke out against the French Revolution?

Answer 12

Edmund Burke

Question 13

13.Who wrote the book called the Rights of Man?

Answer 13

Tom Paine

Question 14

14.How many copies did the Rights of Man sell?

Answer 14

200,000

Question 15

15.When was the Rights of Man published?

Answer 15

1791

Question 16

16.What happened at Copenhagen Fields in 1795?

Answer 16

More than 100,000 people demonstrated for more political rights

Question 17

17.Why was the London Corresponding Society formed?

Answer 17

To pressurise the government into making political reforms.

Question 18

18.What did the Sheffield Society create in 1792?

Answer 18

A petition to parliament asking for political reform

Question 19

19.Name 2 Whig MPs who supported the French Revolution.

Answer 19

Charles James Fox, Earl Grey

Question 20

20.Why did many people turn away from the French Revolution from 1793 onwards?

Answer 20

Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

Question 21

21.Name a law that the government passed in 1795 to stop revolution from happening in Britain.

Answer 21

The Treasonable Practices Act and The Seditious Meetings Act

Question 22

22.Name 2 other ways that the government responded to the threat of the French Revolution.

Answer 22

Banned Rights of Man, spy network set up, tax on newspapers.