The French Revolution 1/2

Question 1

What caused the French Revolution?

Answer 1

The social injustice of the class system

Question 2

What were the three estates in France?

Answer 2

The First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate

Question 3

What was the First Estate composed of?

Answer 3

The clergy

Question 4

What was the Second Estate composed of?

Answer 4

The nobles

Question 5

What did the First Estate and Second Estate not have to pay?

Answer 5

The taille (tax)

Question 6

What was the Third Estate composed of?

Answer 6

Peasants, urban craftspeople, shopkeepers, workers, and the bourgeoisie

Question 7

Which estate had the largest amount of people?

Answer 7

The Third Estate

Question 8

What was the immediate cause of the French Revolution?

Answer 8

The near collapse of the French budget

Question 9

What did bad harvests in 1787 and 1788 cause?

Answer 9

A slowdown in manufacturing food, which led to food shortages, rising prices for food, and unemployment

Question 10

How did Louis XVI react to the French economic crisis?

Answer 10

He called a meeting of the Estates-General and demanded a raise in taxes.

Question 11

During the meeting of the Estates-General, what were the two things that the Third Estate wanted?

Answer 11

1. A constitutional government that would make the clergy and the nobles pay taxes
2. Reform in the voting system

Question 12

What did the Third Estate declare itself to be?

Answer 12

The National Assembly

Question 13

What was the Tennis Court Oath?

Answer 13

When the National Assembly swore that it would continue meeting in a tennis court (their meeting place) until they had a new constitution

Question 14

What caused the Storming of the Bastille?

Answer 14

The crowd was hungry and agitated, for the price of bread was very high.

Question 15

What was the rumor of the Bastille?

Answer 15

That there was ammunitions in the Bastille

Question 16

What did the crowd do when they found out that there was not any munitions in the Bastille?

Answer 16

They destroyed it brick by brick

Question 17

What was the Great Fear?

Answer 17

The peasant rebellions that broke out across France

Question 18

Why did the women march to Versailles?

Answer 18

They needed bread for their families

Question 19

Were the women successful in their march to Versailles?

Answer 19

No, but they did get the king to leave and never return to Versailles

Question 20

How did the National Assembly react to the peasant rebellions?

Answer 20

By abolishing all legal privileges of the nobles and clergy (August 4 Decree)

Question 21

What was established in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?

Answer 21

1. the natural and imprescriptible rights of man to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression
2. all men were free and equal before the law
3. appointment to public office should be based on talent
4. freedom of speech, press, and religion
5. no group should be exempt from taxation

Question 22

Which documents and events were the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen modeled after?

Answer 22

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the English BIll of Rights of 1689, and the Enlightenment

Question 23

What group of people did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen exclude?

Answer 23

Women

Question 24

What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy establish?

Answer 24

1. Bishops and priests were to be elected by the people
2. Confiscated church debts to pay national debt
3. State paid the salaries of the bishops and priests

Question 25

What was one of the most controversial policies, and why?

Answer 25

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, for it made many Catholics enemies of the revolution

Question 26

What did the Constitution of 1791 do?

Answer 26

Set up a limited monarchy

Question 27

What would the Legislative Assembly do?

Answer 27

Make the laws

Question 28

According to the Constitution of 1791, who could vote?

Answer 28

“Active” citizens (men over 25 who paid taxes)

Question 29

What did some European leaders begin to fear?

Answer 29

That the revolution would spread to their countries

Question 30

Why did the Legislative Assembly declare war on Austria?

Answer 30

Austria and Prussia threatened to use force to restore Louis XVI to full power

Question 31

Why was the Paris Commune formed?

Answer 31

Citizens were upset by the food shortages and defeats in the war

Question 32

What did the Paris Commune do, and what did they demand?

Answer 32

They organized a mob attack on the royal palace and the Legislative Assembly. They demanded that the representatives who would decide the nation’s future would be elected through universal male suffrage, in which all men had the right to vote

Question 33

What did the member of the Paris Commune call themselves?

Answer 33

Sans-culottes

Question 34

What did the sans-culottes wear?

Answer 34

Long trousers, not the knee-length breeches of the nobles

Question 35

What was the motto of the French Revolution?

Answer 35

Liberty, equality, and fraternity

Question 36

What was “liberty” in the motto?

Answer 36

The state of being free from oppressive authorities that impose restriction on society’s life, behavior, or political views

Question 37

What was “equality” in the motto?

Answer 37

Having the same status, rights, and opportunities

Question 38

What was “fraternity” in the motto?

Answer 38

A group of people sharing common profession or interests; the state or feeling of friendship or mutual support within a group