French Revolution test

Question 1

1st Estate

Answer 1

Catholic church/clergy: Religious figures
1% of population
owned 10% of the land

Question 2

2nd Estate

Answer 2

Nobles/royals
2%-3% of population
Owned approximately 20% of the land

Question 3

3rd Estate

Answer 3

peasants, lawyers, laborers, or land workers
97% of population
Payed ALL the taxes

Question 4

Absolutism

Answer 4

King Louis XVI had near absolute power over his subjects,

Question 5

What were the causes the French Revolution?

Answer 5

the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution.

Question 6

The Estates-General

Answer 6

-Called by Louis XVI
-type of representation
-National Assembly Forms

Question 7

Fall of the Bastille

Answer 7

-A mob of Parisians took control of the Bastille/ dismantled it
-Royal authority had collapsed

Question 8

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

Answer 8

-Inspired by the American Declaration of
Independence
-English Bill of Rights
-Reflected Enlightenment ideas

Question 9

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Answer 9

-National Assembly seized
and sold lands of the Catholic Church
-French Government now
controlled the Church

Question 10

Constitution of 1791

Answer 10

Set up a limited Monarchy
Relationships with the rest of Europe were destroyed

Question 11

Tennis Court Oath

Answer 11

a promise by the members of the National Assembly to meet until a constitution was written and enacted

Question 12

Congress of Vienna

Answer 12

The Congress of Vienna was a meeting of ambassadors, or official representative, of European states in 1814 to redraw European country boundaries and establish peace