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.