French Revolution

The French Revolution began in 

• 1776
• 1789
• 1876
• 1798

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution
• Marie Antoinette's lavish spending
• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
• all of the above

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Scientific Revolution
• the Enlightenment
• all of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

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This Enlightenment thinker was especially important for the ideas of the Revolution

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• David Hume

Which Estate actually paid taxes?

• Bourguoisie(3rd Estate)
• Clergy(1st Estate)
• Nobles(2nd Estate)

Which of the following was an underlying, or deep-­rooted, cause of the French Revolution? 

• unequal tax on the 3rd Estate
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

The first government of the French Revolution was called:

• National Guard
• National Assembly
• National Congress
• Continental Congress

What was the name of the French Prison that was stormed during the Revolution?

• Versaille 
• Bastille 

The French Revolution began when King Louis XVI

• was executed
• had his troops attack Paris
• called the Estates General together
• abdicated