The French Revolution
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- Q1These were the two major inspirations of the French Revolution:The Declaration of Independence and The Magna CartaEnlightenment and the American RevolutionThe Rights of Man and the US ConstitutionThe English Bill of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man30s
- Q2Th Old Regime is said to have a social imbalance because its classes were divided up into:Three EstatesMoney Makers and Money TakersOccupationsMen and Women30s
- Q3The First Estate was the:ClergyKingNoblesCommoners30s
- Q4The Second Estate was the:NoblesClergyCommonersKings30s
- Q5The Third Estate was made up of:Clergy of priestsCommoners from doctors to peasantsNoblesthe rich and famous30s
- Q6A major problem the French people had with the absolute monarchy was:the royal armytaking away money from the nobles to give to the poorParliament's involvement in the rights of othersthe heaving taxing of the Third Estate30s
- Q7Which is NOT true about the King's economic status?He would tax the people to pay for his debts he created.Even the banks wouldn't loan him money.He was a lavish spender.He was good at saving his money.30s
- Q8What was the name of the legislative body in which the different Estates participated?The Estates-GeneralParliamentNational AssemblyCongress30s
- Q9When the people requested a constitutional monarchy, what did King Louis XVI do?He invited them to participate in making the laws.He threw all the Third Estate into the Bastille.He shut them out of the proceedings of the Estates General.He wrote the Tennis Court Oath.30s
- Q10What was it called when the Third Estate gathered on the king's tennis courts to write their own constitution?The Man's Declaring of RightsThe Tennis ConstitutionThe Tennis Court OathThe Declaration of Independence30s
- Q11When did the French Revolution officially start?When the Third Estate became the National AssemblyWhen a mob of peasants stormed the BastilleWhen they signed the constitutionWith the Tennis Court Oath30s
- Q12Which is NOT a reason the peasants chose to storm the Bastille?to look for the king himselfto free prisoners the king had wrongfully thrown in jailto tear down a representation of the king and his powerto get gunpowder and other artillery30s
- Q13Why did riots break out in the countryside?Peasants raided homes of noblesThe National Assembly had the guns to do soPriests began killing all the sinnersThe Nobles began to fight back30s
- Q14Why did the peasants go for homes of the nobles in their raids?to look for the cake offered by Marie AntoinetteIn response to their anger at the unfair Estate System and their increased povertyto find the palace of Versaillesto get more guns30s
- Q15When the King was arrested and the Constitution set aside, what legislature took over?The Robespierre EraParliamentThe Estates-GeneralThe National Convention30s