The Storming of the Bastille

Which of these were NOT part of the Third Estate?

• The middle classes

• Peasants

• Urban workers

• The nobility

The First Estate was made up of the ​ (a)  

• clergy
• nobility
• merchants and factory owners

The King in France at the time of the French Revolution was

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XVII

The nobles were all rich

• True

• False

From the 1730s to 1789, the cost of living in France ... by 45%.

(Complete using ONE word)

In 1788, the French Government had an income of 560 million livres. The total government debt was over...

• 4000 livres

• 5000 livres

• 6000 livres

• 7000 livres

The American Declaration of Independence said that 'everyone was born (a)   ​, that they had ​ (b)   ​ which could not be taken away, and that governments should act in the interests of the ​ (c)   .

• equal
• poor
• rich
• rights
• money
• people
• country

At the Estates General in May 1789, there were representatives of...

• The First Estate

• The Second Estate

• The Third Estate

• All three Estates

As they were disappointed by the result of the Estates General, the Third Estate and some members of the First Estate set up a National Assembly which wanted ...

• an absolute monarch

• a constitution

• a new King

• to storm the Bastille

On 14th July 1789, an angry mob stole muskets from a military hospital called Les Invalides, and stormed the Bastille, which was a ...

• hospital

• church

• palace

• prison