French Revolution

The pre-revolution system that divided France into three unequal estates know as the

• Bourgeoisie

• Old Regime

• Class System

• Estates- General

The estate that was forced to carry all of the burden by paying taxes and did not receive any privileges

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Bourgeoisie

Prior to the French Revolution, all of the following were reasons why France was struggling economically except

• High taxes

• Soaring prices

• Failing crops

• Controversial elections

How did King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette make the 1789 economic situation of France worse?

• Loaning Austria too much money

• Excessive spending

• Closing French Banks

• Printing too much money

Once France ran out of money and its economy collapsed, who did Louis XVI attempt to tac and what event did it lead to?

• Catholic Church, Concordat

• Second Estate, Estates-General

• Peasants, Great Fear

• Jacobins, Reign of Terror

Where did the delegates of the Estates-General have their meeting?

• Versailles Palace

• Tuileries Palace

• Bastille Prison

• Elba

After the Third Estate walked out of the Estates-General, what group did they form?

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• National Convention

• Directory

The promise of the National Assembly to stay at Versailles and draft a new constitution was known as the

• Committee of Public Safety

• Peasant Act

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

What happened on July 14, 1789 that is considered the climax of the early French Revolution?

• Storming of the Bastille

• Abolition of noble titles

• Tennis Court Oath

• Reign of Terror

After the completion of the 1791 (#1) and the creation of the constitutional monarchy, who held real power in France?

• National Assembly

• Legislative Assembly

• National Convention

• Napoleon Bonaparte