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French Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the 1770’s the French social and political system known as what? | Old Regime |
| Who had access to high offices and exemptions from paying taxes?. | privilaged estates |
| Who formed the 1st estate? | CatholicChurch |
| How much land in France did the 1st estate own? | ten percent |
| How much of the 1st Estates income did they contribute to the government? | two percent |
| Who was part of the 2nd estate? | rich nobles |
| How much taxes did the 2nd estate pay? | almost none |
| How much of the population did the 2nd estate account for? | two percent |
| How much land did the 2nd estate own? | twenty percent |
| How much of the population belonged to the 3rd estate? | ninety seven percent |
| Which three groups of people did the 3rd estate consist of? | Bourgeoisie Workers Peasants |
| Bakers, factory owners, professionals, skilled artisans were all part of which class? | Bourgeoisie |
| How would you describe the Bourgeoisie's privileges and taxes paid? | no privileges no taxes |
| Why did they feel they were equal to nobles in the 2nd estate | they were rich |
| The Workers class in France consisted of which 4 main groups? | Tradespeople apprentices laborers servants. |
| Which class dealt with low wages, being frequently out of work and would attack grain carts and bread shops if prices rose. | Workers |
| How much of the population belonged to the Peasant class? | eighty percent |
| Where did half of the Peasants income go? | nobles church taxes |
| What made it difficult to conduct profitable business before the French Revolution? | high taxes |
| What caused the price of bread to double before the French revolution? | crop failures |
| France's debt nearly doubled because they borrowed money to help with which war? | American Revolution |
| What was one way France's kings caused the national debt to nearly double? | extravagant spending |
| Where did a large amount of France's past debt come from? | previous kings |
| Who did Louis XVI want to impose a tax on to help pay the nation's debt? | nobles |
| What did Louis XVI call in order to approve of new taxes to help with France's debt? | Estates General |
| How were votes in the Estates General assigned according to medieval rules? | one per estate |
| How did the 3rd estate want to assign votes in the Estates General? | one per delegate |
| Who suggested that the 3rd Estate delegates should name themselves a National Assembly to pass laws and reforms. | Joseph Sieyes |
| When the 3rd estate voted to establish the National Assembly, what did it end? | absolute monarchy |
| When the 3rd estate delegates broke into a tennis court, they pledged not to leave until what was created? | new constitution |
| What did the king’s station around his home in response to the creation of the National Assembly? | Swiss Guards |
| What was the name of the prison that peasants stormed in order to obtain guns and free prisoners? | Bastile |
| In which event did peasants break into noble’s manors, destroyed legal papers that bound them and burned down manor houses. | Great Fear |
| Who gained power in France and began the reign of terror? | Maximillian Robespierre |
| What was the government agency that was created to protect the revolution from its enemies? | Committee of Public Safety |
| Who defended himself so well, he was eventually denied the right to speak? | Georges Danton |
| What was changed in order to wipe out every trace of France’s past and build a “republic of virtue” | calendar |
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