French Revolution Questions

Question: First EstateSecond EstateThird Estate

Answer: What were the three groups of French society

Question: Third Estate

Answer: Which group made up almost 98% of the French society?

Question: Peasants and Bourgoise

Answer: Which two groups made up the Third Estate?

Question: King Louis XVI

Answer: Who was the King of France during most of the French Revolution?

Question: The Queen of France who's married to King Louis XVI

Answer: Who was Marie-Antoinette?

Question: Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer: What French leader was an army captain who became the leader of France after a coup d'etat?

Question: Because the French government was Bankrupt and the third estate were the people who who had to pay taxes. They were heavily taxed and the peasants had to give the land lords much of their crops while the nobles and the King lived a life in luxury while the peasants were very poor and starving

Answer: Why were money problems and bad harvests two causes that help contribute to the French Revolution?

Question: They marched from France to Versailles with pitchforks and other tools demanding for bread

Answer: How did 6000 women and a few men in disguise protest the cost of bread in 1789

Question: That's where gunpowder and weapons are stored which what they needed.

Answer: On July 14, 1789, a huge crowd in Paris broke in to the Bastille. This became known as "Storming the Bastille". Why did they choose this to destroy?

Question: The Third Estate refused to leave until the King recognized them as the National Assembly. The first and second estate joined them and the king gave in to their demands.

Answer: What was important about the "Tennis Court Oath"?

Question: Women

Answer: What group of French citizens did not have equal rights under the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?

Question: They were beheaded

Answer: What happened to King Louis XVI and Maria Antoinette

Question: Robespierre

Answer: Which French revolutionary is said to be the leader of the "reign of terror"?

Question: Guillotine

Answer: Machine that was used to behead people during the French Revolution

Question: Jacobins

Answer: The radical or extremist political group that engaged in terrorist activity during the French Revolution

Question: He declared himself emperor and took the crown out of the Pope's hands and put it on his head

Answer: How did Napoleon Bonaparte become emperor?

Question: Battle in Waterloo

Answer: What battle was Napoleon Bonaparte defeated?

Question: He lived in exile in St. Helena until his death

Answer: What happened to Napoleon Bonaparte after his defeat?

Question: The Storming of the Bestille

Answer: What marked the beginning of the French Revolution?

Question: Reign of Terror

Answer: What was the time during the French Revolution in which there was a wave of fear throughout the country called?

Question: Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer: Which French leader created a national educational system?

Question: Louisiana Territory

Answer: What did Napoleon sell to the United States in 1803?

Question: Revolution

Answer: A big or major change over a short period of time

Question: It was nationalized and sold to pay off the government debt.

Answer: How did the new constitution created by the National Assembly affected the Church?

Question: Nationalism

Answer: Loyalty and devotion to one's nation above all other groups

Question: Duke of Wellington

Answer: Who led the British troops against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

Question: Sans culottes

Answer: ____ were the workers of the Third Estate and this became a nickname of pride for the workers.