The French Revolution, Part 1

Question 1

What was the focus of the French Revolution?

Answer 1

To destroy an unfair class system and end the rule of kings in France

Question 2

As a result of the French Revolution, what happened to the power of European monarchies?

Answer 2

It decreased

Question 3

Which of these was NOT a war that helped to deplete the French treasury in the mid to late 1700s?

Answer 3

Spanish-American War

Question 4

Who made up France’s First Estate?

Answer 4

clergy

Question 5

Who made up France’s second estate?

Answer 5

nobles

Question 6

Who made up France’s third estate?

Answer 6

commoners

Question 7

What were real problems in France by 1789?

Answer 7

lack of work and hunger

Question 8

This Enlightenment idea challenged the belief in the Divine Right of Kings:

Answer 8

ordinary people should be free to elect government leaders

Question 9

Versailles was the home to what French king in 1789?

Answer 9

Louis XVI (sixteen)

Question 10

What was the new government called that was created by the Third Estate after the king refused to make reforms?

Answer 10

National Assembly

Question 11

Why did angry Parisians storm the Bastille on July 14, 1789?

Answer 11

they wanted ammunition and weapons

Question 12

What was built with the stones of the Bastille?

Answer 12

bridge

Question 13

Between 1789-1791, the National Assembly went after the Catholic Church and seized Church property, had voters elect Church Officials, and what else?

Answer 13

made the church pay taxes

Question 14

What was A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the citizen?

Answer 14

1791 French constitution

Question 15

France’s new government in 1791 was known as what?

Answer 15

Legislative Assembly

Question 16

In the end, the French Revolution resulted in a democratic government for France.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

By October of 1791, the economic troubles that helped start the French Revolution had been solved.

Answer 17

false

Question 18

The French king wanted the help of other European monarchs to destroy the French Revolution.

Answer 18

true

Question 19

The guillotine was used for the first time in a public execution in France in 1792.

Answer 19

true

Question 20

Austria and Prussia posed no threat to France.

Answer 20

false

Question 21

The third revolutionary government was known as the national Convention and it abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the birth of France’s First Republic.

Answer 21

true

Question 22

Liberty, Equality, brotherhood became the motto of the French people.

Answer 22

false

Question 23

On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI (sixteen) was sent into exile

Answer 23

false.

Question 24

George Washington urged the United States to join Spain, Great Britain, Holland, Austria, and Prussia in going to war against France.

Answer 24

false.

Question 25

Courts called revolutionary tribunals were created just to try people who were accused of counter-revolutionary activities.

Answer 25

true

Question 26

The Committee for Public Safety, which ruled France by the summer of 1793, was headed by a Jacobin named Maximilien Robespierre.

Answer 26

true

Question 27

Though it was called the Reign of Terror, many people were found not guilty and released, including Queen Marie Antoinette.

Answer 27

false

Question 28

Before being beheaded, prisoners would have their hair cut.

Answer 28

true.

Question 29

The fourth revolutionary government was called the Directory.

Answer 29

true.

Question 30

Napoleon Bonaparte led a successful French invasion of Great Britain in 1797.

Answer 30

false

Question 31

Napoleon ended the French Revolution in 1799 when he seized power.

Answer 31

true

Question 32

Napoleon refused to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States, so the United States took it by force.

Answer 32

false

Question 33

By taking possession of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the United States doubled in size.

Answer 33

true